About six weeks ago, in anticipation of GNOME 2.16, I switched my desktop from an Ion window manager-based X11 environment to the JDS environment integrated with Solaris. Now, with the delivery of Build 53—not yet on the Download Centre, apparently—the wait is over: [Formerly, a scaled down screenshot of a system running Build 53.] A [...]

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Tools at OpenSolaris.org

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PlanetDreamcast: Games – Best Dreamcast Games

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MogileFS Danga’s userland distributed file service.

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[cs/0611108] On the Complexity of Processing Massive, Unordered, Distributed Data Compares complexity of single stream algorithms to multiple stream algorithms on “massive, unordered, distributed” data.

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OpenSolaris Forums: Progress with System z Port … Neale Ferguson shows some early startup output for a port of OpenSolaris to a System z9 (IBM) mainframe.

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Redwood City Center of Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Redwood City, California PAMF’s new office is now the closest to our home.

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Planet OpenSolaris Brought to life by Gman and stevel! Now, how do I get a kooky headshot up there…?

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chandanlog(3C): Copyrights, Licenses and CDDL Illustrated Chandan developed these diagrams a couple of months ago, but since I keep explaining these distinctions over and over, it seems best to make it easier to find.

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On opensolaris.org, we host Mercurial and Subversion via their ability to tunnel through an SSH connection. A slight gotcha with Mercurial is that it turns off compression when tunnelled through SSH, as described in hg(1): $ man hg …. – Mercurial doesn’t use its own compression via SSH; the right thing to do is to [...]

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