Update: Java 17 is now running on both SPARC and x86 #Solaris, and #AIX — Jenkins agents are up. 🎉

Thanks to the Mastodon community for the 5-minute fix, and to @ptribble for the builds!

Still looking for a long-term solution — but crisis averted for now 😅

#Jenkins #DevOps #OpenSource #AIX #Solaris

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@jonyesno/116366110590403972

Meet my good friend @jonyesno He's everything you’d want from the modern #sysadmin - seen everything from old mainframes to modern cloud infrastructure and every weird thing in between, and has a record of quickly coming up to speed and getting stuff done no matter what size or shape of computer or service you’ve got there.

It’s a tricky time for IT organisations: everything is expensive and in short supply, so we’re all looking for ways to keep the hardware and software we already have running well. Hiring someone like Jon is an easy way to stretch your sysadmin budget - you’ll get careful and thoughtful service, great ideas you hadn’t thought of, and a genuinely kind and caring attitude.

Bonus: a steady stream of space, train, cat, old computer and good drink content. You see why I keep him around. Give him a call!

#linux #freebsd #illumos #solaris #zfs

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟰/𝟬𝟲 (Valuable News - 2026/04/06) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/valuable-news-2026-04-06/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟰/𝟬𝟲 (Valuable News - 2026/04/06) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/valuable-news-2026-04-06/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Heutzutage kann man mit einer Digitalen Anzeige und einem passenden Programm so gut wie alles auf einem Bus schreiben.

Hier hab ich mal "The Länd" genommen.
Hatte auch die Zielanzeige mit einem Mercedes-Stern und den Wörtern "Mercedes-Benz" missbraucht, fand es halt lustig ein Solaris mit dem Ziel "Mercedes-Benz" 🤣😉
#Bus #Lotse #SEV #Solaris

Just blogged "Solaris 11.4 Updates/Patching Overview"

https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2026/04/solaris-114-updatespatching-overview.html

#solaris #oraclesolaris #sru #updates

Downgraded #Jenkins and all its plugins. Again. Third time — I've finally pinned the version properly 😅

We're frozen on an old version because AIX and Solaris are stuck on Java 11, and newer Jenkins needs Java 17+. Our build farm has 33 nodes across everything from Raspberry Pi to SPARC T4-1.

Now looking at #Forgejo Actions as a way out.

Anyone running CI/CD for AIX or Solaris? What are you using?

#DevOps #OpenSource #AIX #Solaris

Grargh! #Solaris #tar hates #GNU extensions. And #cpanm can't be configured to specifically use #gtar instead of whatever tar it finds first in the path.

Therefore ...

`sudo ln -sf $(which gtar) $(which tar)`

No, I'm not kidding.

https://github.com/DrHyde/perl-modules-Palm-TreoPhoneCallDB/commit/4b8b4f72ed474e17eacca7eb0a2c275d37e662b4

#perl #ComputerAbuse