Posts Tagged ‘solaris’

I’ve finally found a relatively cheap dedicated webhost, that allows me to evade this stupid VPS bullshit and actually let me do what I want. That host is called Hetzner Online, located in Germany.
If you don’t need mission critical hosting and can accept running your stuff on consumer hardware, this might just be for you. [...]

If you’re in need of Linux emulation for whatever reason under Solaris, you’ve an existing mechanism at hand called BrandZ. The seemingly supported distros however are CentOS 3/4 and 5. Kind of antique. Stuff like Ubuntu or various other distros don’t seem to work. However if you really need an updated userland, try Fedora 9.
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I’ve tried to build the source from scratch and hacked the configure file in various ways, nothing helped. I’m not sure what the problem is, it looks like the C# compiler in the Mono Lite package freaking out for some reason. To actually build it properly, you have to have an existing working C# compiler. [...]

While we wait for Sun to fill up its IPS repository for OpenSolaris and whether third parties create good repos or not (Blastwave, yach!), here’s a three links to binary packages that might interest you and shouldn’t be missing on any system (I’ve tested them only under Solaris Nevada/OpenSolaris). All links are SVR4 packages:
Transmission 1.21: [...]