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Previewing the Next Solaris OS
Eric Boutilier writes "Amy Rich has written an excellent Solaris Express (Solaris 10) how-to and general overview. It covers how the program works, using the community web site, and what's new in Solaris Express." Among many new features, the TCP/IP stack has been redesigned, IPv6 support improved, and both NFSv4 and USB 2.0 support added.
Solaris 9 has ssh by default, so I can only assume that 10 will as well.
If you're not averse to free software then I suggest you try Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/). It's a lot easier to set up than Hummbingbird eXeed. It's also free. I've been using it for a few years now to get X access to remote *nix boxen, never had any problems cos it's easy to setup and use. And did I mention that, unliek Hummingbird eXeed, it's free?
Stephen
"Don't write down to your readers, the only people less intelligent than you can't read" - Sign on Newspaper Office Wall
# pkginfo SUNWbash
system SUNWbash GNU Bourne-Again shell (bash)
Perhaps not always installed by default, but it is available. That's on Solaris 8, BTW. As for other stuff, check out www.sunfreeware.com
Can't speak for OpenSSL, but bash is certainly there in Solaris Express:
/usr/bin/bash
% uname -srv
SunOS 5.10 s10_49
% which bash
%
Something like AFS which can scale across an entire enterprise.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
I know this is a trivial thing, but it's a real pain in the butt to have to use ksh all the time because most Solaris boxen I've worked on don't have Bash installed by default.
We keep a local sunfreeware mirror for new sunos installs. Bash, updated Perl with modules, wget, lynx, openssl, bzip, sudo, lsof, openssh, and ncftp. (no gcc) If it wasn't for sunfreeware, I'd go nuts using Solaris. Anyone that has to move/push/alter data, needs common tools on all platforms, thank god for Sunfreeware.
ssh access is all you really need to execute X11 commands. Install Cygwin and Xfree86 if Exceed is too complex. Then SSH in to the box, and check what your DISPLAY variable is set to (echo $DISPLAY). It should point back to your IP address (or hostname), followed by :0.0
if it is not, do "export DISPLAY=your.ip:0.0" and execute an xterm, or start gnome, or do whatever you want to.
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my X network traffic is nicely hidden taken caer of by ssh; the Solaris box puts X traffic onto a fake local framebuffer DISPLAY like before sending it back to my realbox:0.0.It might be slower than what you suggest, but I think it's a lot more secure. Without ssh doing the job of making your X network traffic secure you'll have to worry about Xauthority. Too many people (and I was one once) get around Xauthority hassles with an
and I can't begin to tell you just how Bad that is."Provided by the management for your protection."
Some of the Sun-supplied non-GNU tools have been given GNU options too now. The "-h" flag for du and df and the "-u" flag for diff.
Sun is now reverse-engineering GNU instead of the way it was in the 80's when the GNU Project goal was to reverse-engineer UNIX.
Yes it does now, 2 weeks ago I installed cygwin on a winxp box, and it comes default with a XServer installed, configured to run in rootless mode, so it just uses winxp itself for the windowmanagement.
The last time I tried to do that (maybe one year ago, something like that), it was a lot more work for sure.
If only I could come up with a good sig
As someone sitting in front of a sun with a microsoft mouse (and yes, even the wheel works) i can say that is wrong.
Also, provided the usb device supports the mass storage spec, it will also work on a sun.
man scsa2usb
RTFA
Solaris Express is Sun's program to allow users to preview upcoming versions of Solaris. It IS NOT Solaris 10.
Now you know.