Laptop as demo for Sun Ray server

Another test I have to carry out. I better get a fresh dual core Intel, 4GB RAM, nvidia graphic laptop and Win2003 server to test this out and be able to do demos. Also I have to test SRSS 4 on OpenSolaris 2008.05/snv_91

Shoot myself in the foot

I managed to shoot myself in the foot playing with OpenSolaris 2008.05 Image Packaging System. So now I started over. No data loss but embarrassing...

Anyway, that let me set up my system even better adding the knowledge I've gained during the last couple of weeks.

As this is early birds, there are some special steps to consider.
Boot up from the LiveCD and install with ZFS on one disk. It takes 15 minutes on a decent machine.
After the reboot log in as the user you created at install (not root), open a terminal and do like this.

$ pfexec pkg refresh --full
$ pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg@0.5.11-0.86
$ pfexec pkg refresh --full
$ pfexec pkg image-update

The image update takes 1-2 hours depending on network speed so be patient.

Don't forget to update GRUB (Needed just only the first time you update after a fresh install)

$ pfexec mount -F zfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1 /mnt
$ pfexec /mnt/boot/solaris/bin/update_grub -R /mnt
$ pfexec init 6

Now you have the most modern UNIX on your machine and you can start adding development tools or whatever you need.

$ pfexec pkg install openoffice

Songbird

Songbird works really nice on OpenSolaris (as well as on my laptop with snv_76)

Red or White?

Wine is something I have to look into.

Thin myth busted

Intel just don't get it. The myth that Sun Rays doesn't perform is busted.

OOM Linux kernel joke

OOM is a nice feature in the Linux kernel (not). What a joke that OS is.

Core dump?

This is an extreme amount of cores that Sun will dump on us and shows that they are really ahead of the game. This will make a brilliant server for virtualization.