Due to the recent abandonment of OpenSolaris by Oracle, I moved my ZFS pools to a Nexenta Core 3.0 installation. In the process, I had lost the netatalk (AFP support) that I had hacked into my OpenSolaris installation. That AFP support was done using the hints at Nathan Fielder’s blog, both for installation of netatalk… Read More »
OpenSolaris is dead. Well, it’s not dead, but as good-as-dead. As announced, er, leaked in mid-August, Oracle will no longer be using the OpenSolaris community as a way to build and strengthen the core Solaris bits with help from the outside community. Rather it is taking OpenSolaris internal, and only releasing Solaris 11 binaries (as Solaris… Read More »
Why the Dell/3PAR deal is good for the market, and good for my blogging.