solaris

Hello, What are the advantages and disadvantages of FreeBSD compared to Illumos? Thank you.

Hello, I need to port a legacy application from Solaris to FreeBSD, heavily dependant on large UIDs. In Solaris, UID can be up to 2147483647. In regards to User ID, the Handbook states: How likely is the cited "compatibility issues with some software" aspect? Can somebody offer some...

HI, my 3 disk raidz was lost during a system reboot happend a few days ago. Since then I cant import the zpool and even zdb -e <pool> runs into a kernel Oops. A simple zpool import shows the pool and no error. so should be importable but isnt. How can I get the pool at least imported for...

Oracle, just layed off about 2500 people from Solaris, Storage (ZS1/ZFS), SPARC and Library teams, earlier this year 450 people has been layed off. At December 2016 information about Solaris 12.0 being canceled: The Layoff: Solaris being canned, at least 50% of teams to be...

Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 10-stable on my work laptop. Today I've received java core dump file from Solaris: $ file -b core ELF 32-bit MSB core file SPARC, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from '/usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_12/bin/java -cp ... Is there any way to fetch more information from this Solaris core...

Just a curiosity question. Is any way to install ports on Solaris?

Yet another victim of corporatism graced by the most profitable software company in the world, the OpenSolaris operating environment will likely recede as the community-driven OpenSolaris Governing Board will elect to terminate itself August 23 following a cleverly poised scheme during the Sun...

If bsd was not exist and you didn't like linux witch os you would install? I was using one of this 3 Solaris Opensolaris Minix Nexenta (based on solaris) Maybe haiku (but is not giving me the opinion of a unix os and also not recommended as primary os!) I am asking just because i am curious.

I'm interested to know what other FreeBSD users think and feel about OpenSolaris, it's infrastructure, software support, anything? I like it, though its a bit immature on the software side and I hate its devfs implementation. Oh, and how do you guys feel about its community?