illumos

illumos books!

• Dynamic Tracing Guide
• Modular Debugger Guide
• Writing Device Drivers
• Memory and Thread Placement Optimization Developer’s Guide

Thanks to Josh Clulow and Robert Mustacchi for these!

You can search this and more via our new all-illumos search, which currently includes:                                 

• echelog.com/logs/browse/illumos    (irc)
• dtrace.org   
• illumos.org/issues
• illumos.org/man
• illumos.org/books
• github.com/illumos smartos.org   
• illumos.org   
• perkin.org.uk    
• wiki.illumos.org   
• wiki.smartos.org

Large Installation … Continue Reading

In keeping with the regular quarterly pkgsrc releases, I’m pleased to announce that packages from the pkgsrc-2012Q4 branch are now available for general illumos platforms. – Jonathan Perkin

illumos was founded on innovation. Since its inception two years ago, illumos has risen from the ashes of OpenSolaris; key technologies that have stagnated in Oracle Solaris — ZFS and DTrace in particular – have thrived. Hear what’s new in illumos… and why you’re unlikely to see similar innovation in Oracle Solaris. Adam Leventhal’s talk at illumos Day. Slides here.

• illumos Jobs Board: A page on the illumos wiki for anyone looking to hire or contract for skills in illumos or related distributions and technologies.
• qemu-toolkit – A toolkit for running qemu on Illumos / OmniOS: “qemu-toolkit is a small set of scripts to control QEMU kvm virtualised machines on a set of illumos hosts. Have a look at ‘storadm’ and ‘vmadm’ – inline help will show you the possibilities.”
• A patch for building ruby 1.9.3 in SmartOS / OpenIndiana
• OmniOS Wants To Fill The OpenSolaris Void: “This new version enhances the stability and security of OmniOS, giving customers flexibility … Continue Reading
  

AMI: OmniOS stable r151004 - OmniOS builds on illumos to make a complete operating system.

• Provides users with a familiar, installable operating system with a minimal package set to ease regulatory compliance
• Delivers a self-hosting, environment with simplified processes for ongoing maintenance
• Third-party software components that are delivered with the core are up-to-date (gcc/4.6.3, OpenSSL/1.0.1)
• A more consistent, dual instruction set support (x86 and x86-64)
• A simple and supported environment for managing custom repositories with your software packages.

XStreamOS: An Illumos Kernel Based Operating System – “At Sonicle, we decided to make our own operating system based on the Illumos kernel after Sun Microsystems was … Continue Reading