vim: command not found

The dark days of OpenSolaris are gone. From build 78, VIM, a powerful editor of choice for many programmers written by Bram Moolenar, will become part of Solaris Freeware Consolidation.

In short that means that you should not see the familiar vim: command not found message anymore. VIM will become part of SXCE build 78, it should be in the next SXDE that will be released spring 2008, and I hope that Project Indiana will pick it up soon.

The putback was done by one of our colleagues, Martina Tomisova from Sun Prague last Friday and we celebrated it today by eating Indian sweets.

November 12, 2007 EN, Life at SUN, OpenSolaris

The Swiss Army Knife of Data Storage

Title says it all. Nexenta Systems Inc., the company behind Nexenta Operating System, a powerful combination of OpenSolaris Core and Debian/GNU Linux packaging system and user land applications today announced availability of the NEXENTASTOR APPLIANCE.

It is based on OpenSolaris, it is based on Debian/GNU, it features ZFS root/boot configuration, transactional apt-get dist-upgrade side by side with zpool snapshot.

And if I’m not mistaken it is the first commercial product based on OpenSolaris and not being produced by Sun Microsystems.

November 1, 2007 EN, Nexenta, OpenSolaris

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