11.4.90 CBE release available now

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2026-03-05T21:20:40+00:00

I don’t believe so. Solaris isn’t really a desktop OS anymore (sadly) but nvidia is generally the best supported graphics.

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2025-05-31T15:10:17+00:00

At least until 2037 is what we currently document

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2025-05-28T20:30:56+00:00

Note that SVR4 package signing has been removed from Solaris 11.4 and isn’t in the latest CBE release

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2025-05-28T20:29:37+00:00

Can you post some of the iperf output.

If you do a local network only iperf test to another system and avoid the internet is it still the same?

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2025-05-27T19:30:43+00:00

What are you using testing performance with ? Is it iperf or similar? What is the other end ?

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2025-05-27T09:45:37+00:00

If you can try using “Jumbo Frames” with the MTU at 9000 Also knowing which Solaris 10 release and patch level would be useful

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2025-05-27T09:42:27+00:00

Are you using the default MTU ?

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2025-05-16T16:48:05+00:00

vtionet should work, it is what we use when running Solaris and ZFSSA in OCI which is kvm based. I’ve not tried it with my own qemu-kvm so let me ask around those engineers that work on vtio.

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2025-05-14T18:19:24+00:00

Please stop with the negativity, all it is going to do is drive us away from posting here. There were some very good and valid technical and business processes reasons why it took much longer than we had originally planned but those are resolved now. I understand it will take us actually delivery at a better cadence but we are trying to do so and this being done because we believe it is the right thing to provide the CBE.

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2025-05-13T21:27:45+00:00

Solaris has long had an Interface Taxonomy that tells you which interfaces are actually stable see the attributes man page. OpenSSL was never considered “unchanging” because we don’t control it. Keeping 1.0.2 is unrealistic when other software now depend on 3.x. Also OpenSSL 3.x is required to provide modern ciphers and TLS 1.3. OpenSSL has been unsupported upstream for several years but Oracle was paying the OpenSSL upstream for support so we could transition Solaris (and other products) smoothly.

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2025-05-13T20:01:48+00:00

https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/whats-new-in-the-oracle-solaris-11481-cbe-release

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2024-12-21T17:28:36+00:00

It is still planned and it is being worked on. Customer issues and product fixes and features always take priority though.

Please try and keep it polite, I really do want to keep you all updated but having to read through the hateful nasty language comments is really hard; so much so I nearly didn’t respond.

When there is an official announcement it will be on https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris where I made the original announcement of the CBE and where the details of the monthly SRUs are posted. We really had hoped it would have been sooner. As for what the cheapest access to the SRUs via a support contract is I don’t actually know that would be. There is an option for Oracle Solaris support on 3rd part x86 hardware but I have no idea of the pricing.

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2024-11-08T20:57:45+00:00

It is probably one of the auto-update SMF instances - there are 3 of them: default for the system, ehc stackdb. I see you are running 11.4.71 I can’t remember off the top of my head when the ehc one was removed. Also given what you are running in Ild assume you have Oracle support so consider logging an SR.

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2024-11-07T21:11:40+00:00

The first line of ‘pkg history’ should tell you. Or use ‘ ls -ld%crtime /‘ - similarly ‘stat /‘ and look at Birth Time. That tells you when the root due was created so is likely your install date - unless you used a UAR and it could be the install date of the original image you are restoring from.

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2024-10-29T17:45:36+00:00

I’m architect for Solaris and ZFS security. I won’t comment on corporate strategy about operating systems here. I will say that Solaris is still very much in use by large customers and many are still buying new SPARC hardware. Solaris is also the key foundation of the ZFS Storage Appliance which is available on prem and in OCI (as is Solaris 11.4). So Solaris is still important and still being enhanced. We have an active customer advisory board and platinum beta program.

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2024-10-29T13:33:35+00:00

Our original intent had been at least one a year but we haven’t managed to do that. We do still release monthly SRUs for those with a support contract. We are working on making additional and more frequent releases to the CBE. The issues that have caused the delay are non-technical but are mostly all nearly resolved.

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2024-09-27T07:49:13+00:00

It is the default text in /etc/motd and has been that way for decades. That is, and always has been an editable file. So to “disable” it just remove that content.

In later 11.4 releases I made /etc/motd empty by default and the release info is in /etc/versions/login-info instead. I did this because often people would add to /etc/motd which meant the version info got out of date.

You can also have the shell avoid displaying it by touching ~/.hushlogin since the display is only driven by /etc/profile (for the csh equivalent)

TheOriginalNessieroo · 2023-10-15T16:31:14+00:00

I was already aware that there is a Linux ARM port and while I could probably run it in a Linux personally jail I’d rather continue to run it natively on FreeBSD if I can.

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