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Posts from ‘December, 2008’

Access your global zone X11 server from a local zone, without TCP/IP!

I’ve stumbled over some ARC case enabling labelled zones in OpenSolaris (from Trusted Extensions) to access the X11 server in the global zone “natively” using Unix domain sockets instead of TCP/IP or other jokes. It seems that mounting the X11 socket with the loopback filesystem driver into your zone does the job quite well and [...]

Tablets…

After having played around with that Aiptek graphics tablet from my dad, I’ve decided I also need one. I’ve ordered a Wacom Bamboo Fun medium, it was delivered today, and let me tell you…

Then again, I’ve never really cared about drawing until now. Geometric shape doodles while bored at school maybe, but that’s it. First [...]

OpenSolaris 2008.11 is out!

The new bi-yearly release is out. Go download at http://www.opensolaris.com/
A 700MB Live CD with installer, based on build snv_101, more stable, more hardware support, with more applications on the repository.