Author Archives: jgrafton

Wow… Seriously awesome!

Posted on September 17, 2011 by jgrafton

For experiment sake, I decided to duplicate my newly created RHEL session using ZFS.  My Fedora and RHEL virtual instances each live on their own zvol.  As you can see below, each VM has a zvol named disk0: # zfs … Continue reading →

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Installing RHEL 5.5 and Fedora 13 in OpenIndiana 151a KVM

Posted on September 17, 2011 by jgrafton

KVM is really quick on my VT enabled Dual Xeon 5506 system running Open Indiana 151a. I have to say this is very nice work by the Open Indiana / Joyent / Illumos teams!  Here’s a screen shot of RHEL … Continue reading →

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Compiling Illumos in OpenIndiana 151

Posted on September 4, 2011 by jgrafton

My primary Illumos build workstation is a new-ish Core i5-2500K.  To begin tinkering with the Illumos kernel, I installed Open Indiana 151 using the dev-il repository.  The build process works great on OI-151 up to the point where you upgrade … Continue reading →

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Stumbling Through KMDB with New Hardware

Posted on August 25, 2011 by jgrafton

Recently, I refreshed my home workstation from an AMD X-2 based system with an ASUS A8N socket 939 motherboard to a brand spanking new Sandy Bridge Core i5-2500K based system with a Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 motherboard.  Debian Squeeze runs lightening fast!  … Continue reading →

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“Wait… is that billions?”

Posted on August 19, 2011 by jgrafton

Ironically, after yesterday’s post about Oracle’s caviler attitude toward dealing with communities built around open software, a piece of died-in-the-wool proprietary software stepped out of Oracle’s (ever growing) stable of software, neighed a couple of times, stamped it’s feet and kicked … Continue reading →

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Oracle-ish Anxiety

Posted on August 18, 2011 by jgrafton

For the past year, I have suffered from what I’ve churlishly dubbed as Oracle-ish Anxiety.  It’s the feeling that at any moment, Oracle may greedily yank a technology that I depend upon, kicking and screaming, from the clutches of the public domain. OpenSolaris … Continue reading →

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Distributed Version Control FTW

Posted on July 24, 2011 by jgrafton

Linus Torvalds gives a good talk on the evilness of Subversion and CVS and the benefits of Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS).  It’s pretty interesting.  I prefer Mercurial versus Git myself but the idea is the same.  Having a copy … Continue reading →

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