Sun’s OpenOffice.org, Solaris 10 Considered Significant
A special eWEEK report names the products, applications, and technologies of the last decade that have changed the way people work, play, and live. Limiting the list to 25 of the most significant technologies and products, eWeek found OpenOffice.org and the Solaris 10 Operating System to be two important solutions making a mark in the last 10 years.
10 FOSS-on-Windows Treasures Selected by ITBusiness.CA
Many don’t know that there are compelling open source software solutions for Microsoft Windows. Besides the free and open source Mozilla Firefox web browser, which is widely known, used and definitely part of this top 10 list, there are many more undiscovered FOSS-on-Windows treasures and Randall Kennedy with itbusiness.ca has picked out another 9 applications he believes all Window users must have.
Follow Josh Simon’s Progress with Updating Ploticus
Using SourceJuicer 1.2.0 and OpenSolaris 2009.06 enabled blogger Josh Simons to upgrade the open-source package Ploticus he had earlier developed using prior iterations of those releases. He recommends having a look at “How to use OpenSolaris SourceJuicer” and a brief video demo on SourceJuicer that he incorporates in his blog.
Series Examines SSO and Policy Protection, Cross-Domain SSO
Firefox, combined with the Live HTTP Headers and HackBar add-ons, is a powerful troubleshooting tool, writes Jim Faut in a three-part article co-authored with Rick Palkovic that covers “Troubleshooting OpenSSO with Firefox Add-Ons: Part 1, Introduction; Part 2, Single Sign-On and Policy Protection; and Part 3, Cross-Domain Single Sign-On.”
Short news items for the Sun Users Community.
Zonestat v1.3
Zone Statistics is an OpenSolaris project devoted to developing a better understanding of resource consumption and resource controls of Solaris Containers (aka Solaris Zones) and their workloads.
Jeff Victor has updated Zonestat to version 1.3. He said, “I was never happy with the method that zonestat used to discover the mappings of zones to resource pools” and “I found the time to replace the code in zonestat which discovered zone-to-pool mappings with a more sophisticated method.”
JavaFX
Robert Field just finished the draft of the JavaFX Script Language reference.
OpenSolaris on Mainframes
OpenSolaris is available for IBM mainframes. IBM has told its customers who use its Integrated Facility for Linux that it is OK to run OpenSolaris See OpenSolaris for System z.
MySQL 5.1
MySQL 5.1 is Generally Available (GA) release for production use.
FireFox 3.0 for Solaris
Bernd Finger has posted the direct links for downloading the latest Firefox (3.0.4 and 2.0.0.18) for Solaris and OpenSolaris, SPARC and x86 versions in a recent blog entry.
OpenSolaris 2008.11
Glynn Foster created a very nice New and noteworthy page for OpenSolaris 2008.11
Sun Fire USBRDT 5240 Uniboard
The Sun Fire USBRDT 5240 Uniboard is a two-socket, UltraSPARC T2 Plus Uniboard that fits into Sun Fire 4800, E4900, 6800, E6900, F12k, F15k, E20k, and E25k servers.
Sun xVM VirtualBox
The latest release of xVM VirtualBox is now version 2.0.6. It is available of free download.
