Life on the OutSide

ClamAV is an open-source antivirus engine which is widly used. Problem has been that since v1.0.0 onwards the build process changed and didn...

4CAT is a research tool that can be used to analyse and process data from online social platforms. Its goal is to make the capture and analy...

I recently tried upgradeing MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0 on SPARC kernel zone (KZ) but it failed. Here is some information which may help people i...

Following on from a previous blog " Building OpenJDK 12 on Solaris 11 x86_64 " I have added instructions for OpenJDK 13 on Oracle ...

Following up from my last post Building Bacula Backup Software for Solaris 11.4 where I got the software up and running, now it time to do ...

As we know Networker backup software does not support Solaris as a backup server any longer, so we need to look else where. Ventured over to...

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...