solaris – Geek 2.0 https://www.stormacq.com Some not-so random thoughts about this small IT World Mon, 04 Aug 2014 19:04:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 Solaris 11 Express on VirtualBox https://www.stormacq.com/solaris-11-express-on-virtualbox/ https://www.stormacq.com/solaris-11-express-on-virtualbox/#respond Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:13:27 +0000 https://www.stormacq.com/?p=425 I just downloaded and installed Solaris Express 11 on VirtualBox on my Mac and I was pleasantly surprised by the integration work done during these last two years.  Everything I tested is working out of the box, including screen resizing, a traditional paint point of Solaris + VirtualBox.

Beside paving the way toward Oracle Solaris 11 and being one of the first Oracle branded release of Solaris, there are many new functions for developers and system administrators.

I was particularly impressed by the extremely simple installation process, that started with OpenSolaris and is now live for all current and future Solaris users.  You can have a preview with this video.

You can also download a prebuilt Virtual Box VM, ready to use.

Give it a try !

]]> https://www.stormacq.com/solaris-11-express-on-virtualbox/feed/ 0 Patience is a vertue …. and it pays ! https://www.stormacq.com/patience-is-a-vertue-and-it-pays/ https://www.stormacq.com/patience-is-a-vertue-and-it-pays/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:29:47 +0000 https://www.stormacq.com/?p=183 Since several years, Solaris x86 (and now OpenSolaris) users are complaining about the lack of a decent PDF viewer for our platform.  Surprisingly Adobe maintained up-to-date it’s SPARC version, but not the x86 version.

This is probably a sign of the OpenSolaris adoption rate : Adobe just released Acrobat Reader 9 for Solaris and OpenSolaris on x86 platforms.

Brian has the installation procedure. 

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