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Book Review: DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD

Topics
Operations,
OSX,
Infrastructure,
Operating Systems,
Solaris,
DTrace,
Book Review

This book is written by Brendan Gregg and Jim Mauro, both expert users in DTrace and the Solaris Internals from Prentice Hall. It covers the key features of the DTrace environment, the D language that is used to write the scripts used to provide answers to questions regarding the performance of the system under question.

News about Solaris

Sun Opens Netscape Server Source

Topics
Application Servers,
Java,
Languages,
Open Source,
Open Source Project Releases,
Architecture,
OpenSolaris,
Solaris,
Programming

Sun's OpenSolaris project has released the Java Enterprise Server as open source under the BSD license. The is largely the same as their commerical product, which descends from the Netscape Enterprise Server of the 90's.

Sun Hires Debian Linux Founder Ian Murdock to Run OS Platform Strategy

Topics
Ruby,
Java,
Dynamic Languages,
Languages,
Programming,
Acquisitions,
Solaris

Ian Murdock, founder of Debian Linux, has been hired by Sun Microsystems to head up operating system platform strategy.

Sun Targets Startups with New AMP and Solaris Offerings

Topics
Java,
Languages,
Programming,
PHP,
Business,
Solaris,
Sun Microsystems

Last week Sun made a number of announcements targeted at making Solaris more attractive to startups. Among the announcements was Solaris support for Apache, MySQL, and PHP effectively dropping the "L" from LAMP