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Articles for the keywords: illumos
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18 May 2013
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illumos and the 2013 Google Summer of Code [31012]
third year of participation
The illumos project has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the 2013 Google Summer of Code (this marks our third year of participation in GSoC). The illumos project is a community-driven open source operating system development project derived from the former OpenSolaris project. Google's Summer of Code program promotes student involvement in open source communities by sponsoring summer internships for students to work on projects like illumos. Members of the illumos community (including Nexenta and Joyent) support this program by offering experienced staff members willing to mentor student projects.
If you might like to apply for one of these internships, or just want to learn more about our involvement in this program, please see the illumos GSoC page. OpenIndiana is also participating, under the illumos umbrella.
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22 Apr 2013
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What's new in pkgsrc-2013Q1 [30646]
pkgsrc is a framework for building third-party software on UNIX-like systems
pkgsrc is a framework for building third-party software on NetBSD and other UNIX-like systems, currently containing over 12000 packages. It is used to enable freely available software to be configured and built easily on supported platforms.
The binary packages that are produced by pkgsrc can be used without having to compile everything from source. NetBSD already contains the necessary tools for managing binary packages, on other platforms you need to bootstrap pkgsrc to get the package management tools installed.
As usual there were many hundreds of changes which went into this quarterly release of pkgsrc. Here are some of the more interesting and useful changes.
- OpenSSL 1.0.1 with AES-NI support
- GCC Go support for SmartOS/illumos
- Networking utilities on SmartOS
- Major package versions
Read on for details.
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02 Mar 2013
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Adam Leventhal Ponders the Issue of Systems Software: Alive or Dead? [29981]
Far From a Dead Species, He Contends
A comment by a prospective employee sent Adam Leventhal on a mission. The comment echoed one of the applicant's college professors who asserted that systems programming was at a dead end. Leventhal defined four sorts of "systems programming." Among the four types are:
- supporting systems software
- accidental systems software
- replacement systems software
- intentional systems software
That said, is systems programming truly dead? No, Leventhal responds. "As more and more critical applications build on an interface, the more value there is in improving the systems software beneath it. Systems software is defined by the constraints; itÂ’s a mission and a mindset."
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21 Dec 2012
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The USE Method: SmartOS Performance Checklist [28989]
Comprehensive System Performance Analysis Tool: Cloud, Physical Resources and Software
The USE Method, as Brendan Gregg describes it, provides a strategy for performing a complete check of system health, identifying common bottlenecks and errors. For each system resource, metrics for utilization, saturation and errors are identified and checked. Identified issues are then investigated further. Gregg provides check lists for cloud limits, physical resources and software resources. His example employs a USE-based metric list for use within a SmartOS SmartMachine (Zone), such as those provided by the Joyent Public Cloud. These use the illumos kernel, and so this list should also be mostly relevant for OmniOS Zones, and to a lesser degree, Solaris Zones.
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21 Nov 2012
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Joyent Names New CEO [28572]
Prepares to Release Joyent7 System Software
Henry Wasik, former head of Force10 and SVP for voice networks and applications software at Alcatel, is the new CEO of Joyent, the San Francisco based cloud infrastructure-as-a-service provider, reports Charles Babcock in Information Week. Wasik, who previously worked for startups Mostek and InteCom, holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in industrial management. Joyent plans to release its Joyent7 system software in 2013, according to CTO and founder Jason Hoffman.
The updated cloud system, said Hoffman, "is for people who want to be a service provider, like us."
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