Marcel HofstetterJust blogged "Oracle provides JDK17 for Solaris 11.4 SPARC now!"
https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2026/04/oracle-provides-jdk17-for-solaris-114.html
Jonathan PerkinIf you've ever built a non-trivial amount of software on Solaris / illumos you've almost certainly hit math function errors like this:
error: call of overloaded 'log(int)' is ambiguous
I got fed up of adding patches to pkgsrc, and I believe I have a patch that fixes this once and for all.
https://www.illumos.org/issues/15209#note-4
I'd appreciate wider testing. I've already tested it in a full ~28,000 package bulk build, but changes like this terrify me, and you can't be too careful.
Conan the SysadminThe bazaar hosts a babble of languages. Learn to speak to all the merchants so you can haggle for the packages you desire. Perhaps even antiquities from the #Solaris shop, from a time before the oceans drowned Atlantis. #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenSource https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/package-management.html?s=mc
OSNewsOracle Solaris 11.4 SRU92 released
Despite years of apparent stagnation and reported mass layoffs, it seems the Solaris team at Oracle has found somewhat of a renewed stride recently. Both branches of Solaris - the one for paying customers (SRU) and the free one for enthusiasts (CBE) - are receiving regular updates again, and there seems to be a more concerted effort to let the outside world know, too
https://www.osnews.com/story/144817/oracle-solaris-11-4-sru92-released/
ArchiveOSIceBreaker – an action/arcade game availabale to many platforms, been started developed in 2000. https://archivegame.org/icebreaker/ #game #arcade #linux #windows #bsd #beos #solaris #osx
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DieSachsenSchloss Wackerbarth setzt auf nächtliche Weinbergsfeuer, um Frostschäden an über 100.000 Reben zu verhindern. Details zu Orten, Rebsorten und Kosten. #Weinberge #SchlossWackerbarth #Frostnacht #Frostschutz #Rebstöcke #Elbtal #WeinanbauSachsen #Muscaris #Pinotin #Blütenmuskateller #Bacchus #Müller-Thurgau #Diesbar-Seußlitz #Weinböhla #Laubach #Radebeul #Solaris #Frostkerzen #Rauchfeuer #Schutzmaßnahmen https://bit.ly/4cmmkPZ https://www.diesachsen.de/meissen-news/frostnacht-vorhergesagt-feuer-in-den-weinbergen-an-der-elbe-geplant-3126542?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=publizer&utm_content=textlink
LumiWorx - Just Vote Dammit!Mainstream #Linux sure looks like they want to ignore what's coming. They really should wake the fuck up. @eff ???
#DistroWatch search finds 140 #distributions listed that do NOT use #systemd for init, and that number includes _all_ types of OS's, including the #BSD and #Solaris derivatives.
The search form allows for further filtering to help match your requirements.
a good micro-view on 'saying no' to systemd: https://nosystemd.org
https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2019/05/20/linux-distros-without-systemd
Tribblix m34 for SPARC released
Tribblix, the Illumos distribution focused on giving you a classic UNIX-style experience, doesn't only support x86. It also has a branch for SPARC, which tends to run behind its x86 counterpart a little bit and has a few other limitations related to the fact SPARC is effectively no longer being developed. The Tribblix SPARC branch has been updated, and now roughly matches
https://www.osnews.com/story/144801/tribblix-m34-for-sparc-released/