22 October 2026

Solaris and Linux compared: Filesystems

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Today we compare Solaris and Linux. Which steps are required to create filesystems on a new virtual disk? a) Linux Here we are on a Redhat 1...
29 September 2026

Reduce the duration of Solaris SRU updates using JomaSoft VDCF

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A typical Solaris SRU update on a system with a few zones takes several minutes. Here an example of a small guest domain with 3 zones. -bash...
21 September 2026

New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU95 (September 2026)

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Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features psrinfo -P pbind -i uid/gid accept username/groupname zpool monitor [-t provider[,provi...
21 August 2026

Cleanup LDom Memory Fragmentation

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Over time after many online memory changes, the memory may become fragmented like this example. The small blocks prevent the system  from al...
14 August 2026

New postgres packages 08/2026 are ready for Solaris 11.4 SPARC

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New postgres packages are ready for Solaris 11.4 SPARC You don't need to download source and compile yourself for Solaris. We provide co...
28 July 2026

Only 6 months left for Solaris 10 and 11.3

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Oracle does provide patches under Extended Support for  Solaris 10 and Solaris 11.3 till January 2027.  The dates are documented in  https:/...
16 June 2026

New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU93 (June 2026)

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Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features Kernel Crypto Framework SMF Policy NFS Sockets FOSS: Perl 5.42, PHP 8.5, bash5.3 EOF: m...