Fate of some Sun technologies still up in the air
Despite earlier assurances that Sun's technology will live on, questions remain over Sun's app server, IDE, and cloud platform.
Oracle breaks silence on Sun plans in ad
Oracle Corp. ended its silence Thursday on its post-merger plans for Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Unix systems in an advertisement aimed at Sun customers to keep them from leaving the Sparc and Solaris platforms.
Getting help with scat
Since we looked at mdb last week and probed into a core dump, we should take a quick look at another tool for analyzing core dumps. The "scat" tool provides an easy way to extract an extensive amount of information from a core dump and provide it to you in a relatively readable fashion (as readable as data from a core dump is ever likely to be). Once you start the tool, you can get some help figuring out what commands to use.
OpenSolaris is becoming more like regular Solaris
Lines are beginning to blur between the open source and commercial versions of the Sun Microsystems Solaris Unix operating system.
Last hurrah: Sun updates Solaris with Nehalem features
In the last major release before its acquisition by Oracle Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday made available version 10 05/09 of its venerable Solaris server operating system.
Esther Schindler
If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly
claird
SVG a graphics format for 21st century
pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?
jfruh
Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
mikelgan
What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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