Guest Speaker in the Podcast FOCUS ON: DevOps - it's about Solaris and Illumos history

  • Posted on: 27 November 2024
  • By: tomww

Hi all,

tonight I'm guest speaker a podcast recording. I'll talk about the history of Solaris and my experiences with it.

The Podcast Home is here: https://focusondevops.podigee.io/

I'll keep you posted about the release of the podcast.

What are your experiences or highlights with Solaris and the open derivates of it?
You can reach me on @tomww.bsky.social, @tomww@mastodon.social and https://twitter.com/tomww

The Workbench 2024-04

  • Posted on: 29 June 2024
  • By: tomww

Hi,

its a bit quiet here these days, as I'm busy automating Solaris Zones based Databases being automatically provisioned by Ansible (naturally running on Solaris too).

As the PV Sun panels provide overwhelming amounts of electrical power these days, I can now fearlessly run the Sparc machine all days to resume the builds there. Only I need a little time to concentrate on integrating the packages that are already and will be created into the existing public SFE IPS repository - without killing the existing automated uploads.

Regards
Thomas

The Workbench 2024-01

  • Posted on: 3 February 2024
  • By: tomww

dovecot pigeonhole siev and clamav with dependencies in the works
first light for a sparc package on the automatic build system - pkg://sfe/sfe/editor/gnu/bvi/src@1.4.2,5.11-11.4.42.0.0.111.0:20240121T174734Z

clamav on OmniOS

  • Posted on: 8 January 2024
  • By: tomww

In just unter 5 Minutes!

sudo -i

root# pkg install clamav

root# cp -p /etc/freshclam.conf.example /etc/freshclam.conf
Edit the file and remove the String "Example"

root# mkdir /var/clamav

root# freshclam

The Workbench 2023-11

  • Posted on: 20 November 2023
  • By: tomww

the solar PV generators are in place and working. Expect packages built on Sparc S11.4 CBE!
MySQL fades on OpenIndana and moved to mariadb - do you want a SFE built MySQL instead?
fresh SFE Onnios Packages my be built on 151038-LTS and 151046-LTS
gcc 11.4 and MySQL 8.0.35 for OmniOS r151046

The Workbench 2023-10

  • Posted on: 25 October 2023
  • By: tomww

Hi all,

I found some time to restart building packages.
The one currently in the works is PowerDNS, as I have to get rid of DNS Server bind.
Soon you'll see pdns and pdn-recursor appearing in the SFE repository for OmniOS build 151038 and later.
Wondering why pdns? It can use plain bind zone files as well as mysql records for servicing the zones.
Additionally you can use lua with simple code snippets to solve a lot DNS problems. For instance
creating dynamic replies like switching IP-addresses when asked from inside or from outside of your network.

The Workbench 2023-03

  • Posted on: 16 March 2023
  • By: tomww

sshfs for OmniOS 151030 and later
sshfs for Solaris 11.4 x86 *and* sparcv9 (CBE SRU42 and later)
progress on building lots of perl modules for Sparc (Solaris 11.4)
experimental lua5.4 for Omnios
preparing for power dns package (pdns)
python debugpy and debugpy-run arrived

The Workbench 2022-02

  • Posted on: 17 February 2022
  • By: tomww

samba 4.x update is on the workbench AD Active Directory
Note: Early version of Solaris mysql-80@8.0.28 crashed in "ALTER TABLE". This is fixed now, please "pkg update -v mysql-80@8.0.28.0.1" (replace update with install for fresh installs)

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