Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st Jun 2009 17:50 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
The team at Sun behind OpenSolaris has unleashed OpenSolaris 2009.06 upon the world. This new release comes packed with new features, changes, improvements, and fixes, and is the first release of OpenSolaris for SPARC, adding support for UltraSPARC T1, T2 (Sun4v), and UltraSPARC II, III and IV (Sun4u). Read on for some of the improvements that stand out.
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RE[15]: Pay or run unstable
by akrosdbay on Thu 4th Jun 2009 16:55
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Member since:2008-06-09
You totally misunderstand - deliberately - because you want to paint over the fact that there are no security updates available.
Yes there are. They are in the support repo.
Talking about Solaris's brilliant way of upgrading your system is irrelevant and totally orthoganal to the main point because there are people who clearly have mental issues accepting the current situation. How about providing security updates within a rollback system, eh?
But they are available. You really have no point just more FUD and trolling.
RE[16]: Pay or run unstable
by segedunum on Thu 4th Jun 2009 22:49
in reply to "RE[15]: Pay or run unstable"
Member since:2005-07-06
Yes there are. They are in the support repo.
Squirm, squirm, wriggle.
One of the many OPs has established this because you have to stay with development and 'upgrade' if you want 'updates'. If you stay with release then you won't get them nuless you pay, which is kind of pointless if you want to stay 'stable'.
Also, you can't install newer packages from a single release in development. The only way of getting around this, again, is to completely upgrade your running dev version which, again, isn't exactly a 'stable' thing to be doing. Notice that I threw in the word 'stable' a few times there.
But they are available.
Available to whom, you one brain-celled twit? You cannot perform security updates on an existing installation unless you pay. Notice that word there - updates. You'll notice it has been used throughout the comments.
I'll let you and your one remaining brain cell wrestle with that.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 22:23 UTC
"Sony gave the PS4 50% more raw shader performance, plain and simple (768 SPs @ 800MHz vs. 1152 SPs & 800MHz). Unlike last generation, you don't need to be some sort of Jedi to extract the PS4's potential here. The Xbox One and PS4 architectures are quite similar, Sony just has more hardware under the hood. Weâll have to wait and see how this hardware delta gets exposed in games over time, but the gap is definitely there. The funny thing about game consoles is that itâs usually the lowest common denominator that determines the bulk of the experience across all platforms. On the plus side, the Xbox One should enjoy better power/thermal characteristics compared to the PlayStation 4. Even compared to the Xbox 360 we should see improvement in many use cases thanks to modern power management techniques." AnandTech does its usual in-depth thing.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 13:38 UTC
"The Verge has learned that HTC's Chief Product Officer, Kouji Kodera, left the company last week. Kodera was responsible for HTC's overall product strategy, which makes the departure especially notable on the heels of the global launch of the make-or-break One. It's not just Kodera. In the past three-odd months, HTC has lost a number of employees in rapid succession." I really hope HTC pulls it together.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 13:30 UTC, submitted by JRepin
"It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013. This is a snapshot of Debian 'sid' at the time of the Debian 'wheezy' release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release." Important note: 75% of Debian packages are supported bu Debian GNU/Hurd. Impressive.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 22:06 UTC
"The first killer app was VisiCalc. This early spreadsheet turned the Apple II from a hobbyist toy to a business computer. VisiCalc came with room for improvement, though. In addition, a new architecture and operating system, the Intel-based IBM PC and MS-DOS, also needed a spreadsheet to be taken seriously. That spreadsheet, released in early 1983, would be Lotus 1-2-3, and it would change the world. It became the PC's killer app, and the world would never be the same. On May 14, IBM quietly announced the end of the road for 1-2-3, along with Lotus Organizer and the Lotus SmartSuite office suite. Lotus 1-2-3's day is done." Impressive 30 year run.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:45 UTC
"There's a disconnect between how Apple CEO Tim Cook sees his company's tax strategies and how some members of the US Senate view it. That became clearer than ever today after Cook and two other Apple executives testified before Congress, explaining why they're holding most of their international income in Irish subsidiaries like Apple Operations International, which declare no tax residency anywhere in the world. AOI hasn't filed a tax return anywhere in the world for the last five years, yet it earned $30 billion in income from 2009 to 2012, according to a Senate report released yesterday." Just because something is legal, doesn't mean it's just. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many more - these companies might not be breaking any laws, but it's obvious to anyone that what they are doing is scummy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 15:53 UTC
The new WebKit Opera for Android has been released. "Opera 14 for Android is built on top of Chromium 26, with a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the build from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!"
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 22:43 UTC
The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 21:50 UTC
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:15 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:11 UTC, submitted by Drumhellar
"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."More News »
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Linux is not OpenSolaris, but a unix-clone.
The two are different and that is abundantly obvious.
I've heard this refrain singing in my head for the past ten years. "Oh, Oh, Solaris is so stable and it's a real Unix that enterprises use!" Anyone who says that to me clearly has mental issues over what has happened to Sun and Solaris during that time and are unable to accept it.
You totally misunderstand - deliberately - because you want to paint over the fact that there are no security updates available.
Yer, I can create a new installation and yer I can roll back to my old one if the upgrade is erroneous, but if it is then I'm not going to get my security updates am I? Upgrading to a new version of a system has potential far reaching implications when all you want are some minor updates to software that will maintain compatibility. No sane person in their right mind who wants to run a stable system does that, regardless of how many times he can roll back.
Talking about Solaris's brilliant way of upgrading your system is irrelevant and totally orthoganal to the main point because there are people who clearly have mental issues accepting the current situation. How about providing security updates within a rollback system, eh?
Sorry. I just need to mop up after pissing myself with laughter. Where did you dig this up from? Sun Marketing 101 down the hall?