Category Archives: OpenSolaris

Alive and Well at SFOSUG

January 11, 2011 – 9:35 pm

The city chapter of the OpenSolaris user group meeting back after a hiatus. We wanted to thank you for coming out tonight! It was nice to chat about Solaris swap internals, the state of computer science education, CDDL, and OpenSolaris b147. The next meeting is Feb 8th. Feel free to contact me with topic ideas [...]

By safiume | Also posted in Events | Leave a Comment

Getting Your Virtualization Priorities Straight

November 18, 2010 – 4:00 pm

By Jerry Jelinek Having recently come to work here at Joyent, after spending many years as a kernel developer working on virtualization at Sun/Oracle, its been interesting to see the different emphasis in the development priorities between the two companies. Obviously virtualization is a key foundation for Joyent SmartMachines. Using Operating System Virtualization, Joyent is [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Industry | Comments (5)

Oracle and OpenSolaris: A Kernel of Truth

August 16, 2010 – 6:00 am

@nevali on Twitter asked a question that we’ve heard from many customers, so I’m writing a response to everyone, though none of you need to worry. His question is, “As a long time Open Solaris stalwart, I do wonder what @Joyent’s perspective on the post-Oracle-takeover world is.” In many ways, we’re happy to have seen [...]

By jason | Also posted in Open Source | Comments (2)

We're Looking for OpenSolaris SysAdmins in a Pacific Rim Timezone

April 28, 2008 – 4:33 pm

If you are a great OpenSolaris sysadmin, and live in a pacific rim timezone (e.g. India to Korea), looking to enhance your career, we’d be happy to chat with you about opportunities at Joyent. Please respond to jobs [at] joyent [dot] com.

By grassonthefield | Comments (1)

DTrace, MySQL, Ganglia, and Digging for Solutions

April 24, 2008 – 5:14 am

I stay generic when blogging, but I had an interesting problem today that I thought I’d share. I’ve got a Ganglia rollout thats constantly growing. Some time ago Gmetad start struggling to keep up and would report nodes down (oddly, if you refreshed the page over and over you’d see the number of nodes roll [...]

By jason | Also posted in Recipes | Comments (3)
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