For the home office, I’ve been searching for a new stable enterprise class operating system to replace my current desktop. I thought it might be an interesting read for our Unixmen audience to join me in my quest to find … Continue reading →

Question:  ssh slow connection to solaris 10 and  11 hosts , how to  solve  this ?

There are a lot of pioneering technology companies. Many of them don’t pay homage, respect or contribute to open-source software. But that’s ok, not all technology companies can be expected to. And many of them, it simply is not in … Continue reading →

  Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems may not have yet been completely finalised, but other than some concern from the European Commission about the future of MySQL, it’s certainly looking that way. News website CNET discusses an advertisement which Oracle … Continue reading →

Is Oracle going to kill MySQL and integrate anything it can use from it into its DB? Or is it going to ask everyone to pay for MySQL?

The process of shutting down a Solaris system is critical. Using the init program to restart a system causes Solaris to perform a sequence of steps to shutdown services gracefully. The reboot command bypasses the runtime control scripts and can … Continue reading →

Here’s how you would add a hard drive to Solaris 10, including the format, fdisk, partition, and then creation of the file system.

-=Step-by-Step Sun Directory Server Installation for Solaris 10=-

There is every little chance that one loses or rather forgets the root password of his Sun Solaris servers.