@Pete-S said in What is the fascination of Solaris OS ?: Sun did a few other notable things besides Solaris, such as Java. Yeah, Oracle wasn't the reason Solaris was well known and good. More likely the reason it is dead. https://meshedinsights.com/2017/09/03/oracle-finally-killed-sun/ Yeah, Solaris was good in spite of Oracle. And Oracle was only around for one release. The first several decades of Solaris and SunOS were all under Sun. Oracle only killed it off, without Oracle, it would still be an amazing OS today.

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I was pretty surprised to find that uuidgen was not available, not even available for install!

@scottalanmiller said in Oracle Laid Off Most Of Solaris Team: @marcinozga said in Oracle Laid Off Most Of Solaris Team: I hope all these devs form some entity and continue to work on Solaris fork. I'd love to see OpenSolaris come to life again. Often they can't because they've seen too much closed code What if they move north of the border? Or south...

Hope they will keep the pace

Good stuff, I've long been a Sparc fan.

@scottalanmiller said in UNIX: Switching Users with su: @Grey said in UNIX: Switching Users with su: Pop quiz: why do you need the dash with su? That was in the original article. And I quoted you without quoting you..... see what I did there, I switched a few words

@tjatwood109 said in ZFS is Perfectly Safe on Hardware RAID: @scottalanmiller Thanks - I will proceed without using ZFS - I prefer hardware RAID. Tim ZFS is perfectly fine with hardware RAID, if you like ZFS' features otherwise (like zsend is nice) then there's no reason to avoid it. If you don't plan to use any unique features, then XFS is my "go to" choice by default. Very fast, very stable.

@JJoyner1985 said in UNIX: What Is a Tarball: So, do you think the reason I am seeing a lot more gzip in use with tarballs is due to the familiarity of gzip and the negligible difference in the compression between it and bzip2? Basically, bzip2 doesn't make enough of an improvement with sufficient regularity to entice people to move away from gzip, or is there some other benefit to gzip that my training material hasn't covered? That's correct. The difference between the two is generally small enough that people are not concerned. And lots of systems still don't have bzip2 installed by default so if you want scripts or whatever to work universally you often use gzip because you know that it is always there and predictable.

Sure, mentioned it only for completeness.

Thanks!

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As long as it is "almost" boring, it is still exciting!

@matteo-nunziati said in Open Storage Operating Systems for SAM-SD: what a mess... Windows desktops are loaded with software that you are only limited as to how you can use it by EULA as well.

I loved SunOS, Solaris, and OpenSolaris, but after the Oracle buyout all of the Sun equipment has been slowly replaced and has gone away for the most part, and with the important features being ported to other OSes like FreeBSD, there's not much of a real reason to use OpenSolaris or its babies. Having said that though, I'm put off by the name OpenIndiana, it just sounds really stupid to me, and I don't think I could ever install something like that without flat out denying it if anyone asked. It just makes me think "that's the best name you could come up with, huh? Not even anything remotely related to the Sun or stars or anything..." (I realise the origin comes from a project name, but sticking with it was a mistake, so in a sense I guess I should say "So, couldn't come up with anything at all?")

The FreeNAS community really shows just how important it is to avoid products like FreeNAS. It's built on good tech, but the issues are that the community is horrible, only tiny non-storage expert shops use it and it is broadly misunderstood. FreeNAS doesn't make any of the technology, they just repackage it. So the vendor and their community all lack the basic knowledge of what they have and the stuff that they repeat just gets worse and worse. If this was the FreeBSD community, talking about the same technologies, the answers and approaches would be completely different. Enterprises use FreeBSD every day. They do not use FreeNAS. Once you limit yourself to a "non-expert" product, the idea of using a community for assistance causes a breakdown in dangerous ways.

@scottalanmiller said: NTG started using network UPS in 2000. APC SmartUPS supported that even way back then. I've asked for an OK for funds to purchase a model that can support up to 1800 watts, something like a desktop model that can attach to the network, and allow for Solaris systems to detect they are on battery and shutdown without my interaction. Tripplite is getting back with me, hopefully it's not overly expensive.