© rom I played with Solaris on VMWare Fusion on my Macbook Pro before. However, I have been trying to tinker with ZFS but to no avail. Short of installing Solaris on its own on a separate machine,...

The next iteration of Solaris, OpenSolaris, is different from "your grandmother's Solaris", as described by the Sun folks. Watch the video and see what great things are coming in the...

Who would have thought of a Solaris LiveCD being developed? This is exactly that the folks in Russia did - develop a Live-CD version of Solaris (Nevada b81) and name it MilaX. The small (less than...

I know that this is not a HackItSolaris blog but it pays to monitor the friend or foe of our preferred operating system. Well, just a disclaimer, I do have Solaris and Linux as guest operating systems...

I wrote about what the new Solaris looks like a few weeks ago and a new Developer Preview is now available. Whilst I have yet to download this new version, Phoronix now has a review of this new...

This morning I installed Solaris 10 build 72 on a VMWare Fusion guest OS on Mac OS X. I was surprised by the new installer application. It's a completely different experience compared to before....

Whilst we have numerous virtualization solutions available in the market today, none is as tightly-bundled as Sun's Containers and Zones. With the new 08/07 Build, Solaris makes it easier to run...

I guess I am too engrossed with running Solaris alongside Ubuntu Linux on VMWare Fusion on my Macbook Pro that I never considered running it on Linux. Whilst you can get Parallels and VMWare for...

We all have heard of LAMP, i.e. Linux, Apache, mySQL and Perl/PHP/Python along with MAMP (Mac) and WAMP (Windows). Now Sun is entering the arena with SAMP, for Solaris +AMP. Here's how they are...