Life on the OutSide

As we know Python 3.7 is not out for Oracle Solaris 11.4 yet, but could be out soon, so if you can't wait or you want the latest version...

Well, I have started moving all the software I use over to solaris-userland builds so next in line after my last blog of building FFmpeg i...

Well,as promised after my last entry about Building and Packaging FFmpeg on Solaris 11.4 I followed Chris Beal blog entry Building Opensour...

FFmpeg is a suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio and for a Solaris 11 desktop user it is required for video in your Fir...

Following on from a previous blog " Building OpenJDK 11 on Solaris 11 x86_64 " I have added instructions for OpenJDK 12 on Oracle ...

Instructions for OpenJDK 11 on Solaris 11 SPARC . This follows on from previous posts: Building OpenJDK 10 on Solaris 11 x86_64 Building...

As promised here are the instructions for OpenJDK 10 on Solaris 11 SPARC . This follows on from previous posts: Building OpenJDK 10 on So...

Following on my last blog " Building OpenJDK10 on Solaris 11 " I have added instructions for OpenJDK 11 on Oracle Solaris x64 ( SP...

Well, as we all know Oracle are not allowing the release a binary version of Java 9,10 and may be 11 on Oracle Solaris x64 at this time ( SP...

Thought I would just do a quick comparison between the software versions of the packages in Solaris 11.4 Beta Refresh 2 (11.4.0.0.1.10.0) an...

I thought I would just make a note of the steps to check what cipher I was running on our web server and to see how to remove any old/weak o...

After seeing a post on twitter about building FileZilla on Solaris 11.3 I thought I would I would try it on Solaris 11.4. I did get it wor...

With the release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 Beta and the move over to OpenLDAP, you will notice ldap commands have changed. To help myself and m...

With the release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 Beta I am sure many have upgraded but when I tried to upgrade my Sun Ultra 24 desktop I had a few pr...

With the release of Solaris 11.4 Beta we finally get SASL implementation based on the open source Cyrus SASL version 2.1.26 with a few chang...

After wasting 2 weeks on getting this to work I thought I would post a step-by-step guide. I have been using iscsi targets on Oracle Solar...

Well 2 years ago I complained about LDAPS did not work with PHP in Solaris 11.2 well with Oracle Solaris 11.3 and a recent SRU they are now...

I am in the middle of migrating "Oracle Solaris 11 non-global zone running Samba" to an "Oracle Solaris 11 kernel zone runnin...

I posted this Tweet on twitter a while ago Damn wish there was a way to copy a file from # Solaris global zone to a kernel zone with out...

I posted this Tweet on twitter a while ago Damn wish there was a way to copy a file from # Solaris global zone to a kernel zone with out...