Marcel Hofstetter Solaris Blog

News, Tips & Tricks and Ideas about Oracle Solaris.

15 May 2026

New postgres packages are ready for Solaris 11.4 SPARC

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You don't need to download source and compile yourself for Solaris. We provide compiled postgres as Solaris 11.4 SPARC IPS pkgs. Current...
04 May 2026

Oracle changes Solaris 11.4 SRU delivery

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In the past Oracle provided Solaris SRUs (Support Repository Updates) each month. This does change now. The types of SRUs are reduced from 3...
23 April 2026

Oracle provides JDK17 for Solaris 11.4 SPARC now!

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It is free for personal use and development. Download here:  https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/#java17-solaris The installa...
03 April 2026

Solaris 11.4 Updates/Patching Overview

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CBE (Common Build Environment) For developers Oracle provides a free version for software development and testing. No patches are available ...
31 March 2026

Solaris 11.4 / iostat latency reporting

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The iostat command is used for IO performance reporting  and has a lot of options. Since Solaris 11.4 it includes the -L option to display t...
04 March 2026

The Next Oracle Solaris 11.4.90 CBE is available for Developers

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CBE is the Common Build Environment The first release 11.4.42 was made available by Oracle 03/2022. Last year 05/2025 the version 11.4.81 ...
27 February 2026

New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU90 (Feb 2026)

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Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features devnm -s beadm preserve policy ls -sh output change bootadm GRUB unrestricted property ...
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Marcel Hofstetter / JomaSoft GmbH
St. Gallen, Switzerland
Oracle ACE Director "Solaris" Using Solaris since 1998. Co-Founded JomaSoft in 2000. Developing the Solaris Management and Monitoring Tool VDCF since 2005. Swiss Oracle User Group (SOUG) Speaker of the Year 2016
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