Laptop Solaris

I’m really only just getting used to the Sun Studio 11 environment after years of using gcc, so quick guides to the Sun Studio 11 command line environment are a great way to get familiar.

There’s just such a list on BigAdmin: Commands for Sun Studio 11 Software.

There are some gems here I wasn’t aware of, like xscapture for capturing user interface design from a running Motif/Xt application; anaylyzer for a GUI performance monitor and dmake, for distributed building.

I think I need to spend some time going through each tool on this list and finding out how best to use it.

I’m in the process of doing some testing on the T1000 which I currently have on test at the moment. Some of these tests will be entirely focused on the performance of Cheffy, which uses a combination of Apache, MySQL and Perl.

I’ve also been thinking about testing some key elements in terms of where you might use a T1000 - in a web serving farm where you want high performance out your SAMP stack, say for blogging of Wikis, where you have a lot of small, simple, queries that you want executed as quickly as possible. Most variants of this are based around Apache/MySQL/PHP.

Getting everything set up and organized for that isn’t trivial, so it’s great to see a package like the Cool Tools CoolThreads Optimized Open Source Software Stack (Cool Stack)

The package includes Niagara optimized versions of:

• Apache
• MySQL
• PHP
• Perl
• Squid
• Tomcat

This includes a bundled configuration of Apache with MPM pre-fork and PHP, SSL and Perl modules.

It should go without saying that I’ll be testing this stack against my own configurations and builds as part of the tests.

I have a few tips on getting Solaris 10 running in a virtual machine within Parallels on an Intel-based Mac OS X box, available through Getting Solaris 10 working in Parallels.

I haven’t yet tried it on the MacBook Pro, but then that’s only made it as far as the Netherlands on its journey from Shanghai…

There’s a good step-by-step guide at Sun’s BigAdmin site on how to configure your Solaris box for SAMP - the Solaris equivalent of the LAMP stack.

The short, but sweet, article can be found here.

I use SAMP on the Ultra3 as my development platform for Cheffy. Although we don’t use PHP, I use Perl, but the acronyum is the same.

I also don’t use the ready to roll SFW packages, but compile my own, purely because I have some special settings I like to make use of in all of the different packages. But the fundamentals are the same.

No sooner have I started this blog - designed to cover my experiences of using Solaris 10 as the main operating system on my Sony laptop - than the folks at Sun develop the wireless kit to make using a wireless network on your OpenSolaris box available to the world.

Please feel free to go visit the Wireless page in the OpenSolaris Laptop community for more informaiton.