The Trouble with Tribbles...

I've just announced the latest release of Tribblix - m39, now available for download and upgrades.

I've actually been using IPv6 on and off since the late 1990s - there was an addon for Solaris 2.6 that we installed on a bunch of test machines.

Yesterday I had a trip up to London and had a wander round Infosecurity Europe.

I have a little private project called xTribblix.

Years ago, I was in a meeting when a C-level executive proclaimed: IT systems run at less than 10% utilization on average, so we're moving to the cloud to save money.

I've been trying to get my head around all this Scope 1, Scope 2, Scope 3 emissions malarkey.

AI is all the rage right now.

I recently added a ddu like capability to Tribblix.

I recently went down to the smoke, to Tech Show London.

Somewhat uniquely among illumos distributions, Tribblix doesn't require installation to ZFS - it allows the possibility of installing to a UFS root file system.

Introducing a new feature in Tribblix m36.

Before I even start, let's be clear: there are an awful lot of things currently being bundled under the "AI" banner, most of which of neither artificial nor intelligent.

I use a number of tools in static code analysis for my projects - primarily Java based.

I had to spend a little time recently fixing a crash in OpenJDK on Solaris SPARC.

What's a decent length for a password?

The Tribblix live ISO and related images are put together every so slightly differently in the latest m34 release.

I've been building OpenJDK on Solaris and illumos for a while.

With OpenSolaris and derivatives such as illumos, we gained the ability to build a whole IT infrastructure in a single box, using virtualized networking (crossbow) to build the underlying network and then attaching virtualized systems (zones) atop virtual…

Any operating system distribution - and Tribblix is no different - will have a bunch of packages for python modules.

While a bit under the weather last week, I decided to try and fix what at first glance appears to be a simple problem: need to ship the manpage with exa Now, exa is a modern file lister, and the package on Tribblix doesn't ship a man page.

On the Solaris 10 Platinum Beta program, one of the most exciting promised features was ZFS, the new file system.

The Service Management Facility, or SMF, integrated extremely late in the Solaris 10 release cycle.

One of the slightly unusual features in illumos, and Solaris because that's where it came from, is isaexec.

It's something I've been putting off for far too long, but it's about time to modernize all the shell scripts that Tribblix is built on.

Sadly, the trick described below won't work in current releases of Solaris, or any of the illumos distributions.