Minimal Solaris

Is there an alternative to the illumos native fdisk? Yes, for example, GPT fdisk from Rod Smith. It includes the gdisk, cgdisk, sgdisk, a...

I've put some distro-const scripts to the github repo at https://github.com/alhazred/firefly for anyone who wants to build their own i...

While the Solaris has the updated netstat with -u flag, illumos requires certain improvements in sockinfo, and possibly, rpcbind (tcpConnC...

Recently I had a situation where some incorporating package depends on a package, say foo, version 3.1 and I had to wait for the update e...

If somebody is looking for illumos-based filesafe image, I've created small iso (usb image is available also) at sourceforge . This ima...

This week I updated illumos grep(1), having added support for recursive searching: $ man -M /usr/share/man grep ...      -r            ...

This iso has become a rarity: as you know, NCP4 never saw the light: Nevertheless illumos has now the second distribution - illumian , wher...

It is hard to say why the BrandZ code was removed from the OpenSolaris. However this can be corrected. With small fixes I've now got Ce...

IPhone owners can use a great app for servers monitoring - istat . On the server you must install the istatd daemon. More information can be...

Osstat Gnome applet now reaches version 0.3 - minor fixes, new graphs and some features. Feel free to optimize code or change parts to use b...