Minimal Solaris

Following a bit outdated, ufs-based method from  " Using kmdb to reset lost Solaris root password"  article, we still use uiomove...

This summer I decided то build something compact and modern for my two SunFire servers using IPS. Meet v9os - minimalist illumos-based ...

The following changes have been made: smf removed completely freebsd bootloader from the illumos loader project busybox provides init ...

I never understood why Solaris does not contain a simple way to checking the amount of used/free memory and swap.  On Linux you can check...

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            ...