IBM developerWorks Live! at Porto Alegre

Today i was in an event organized by IBM, about 'Change and release management for software development'. I'm not a 'devel' guy, but anything in computer science is about software, and one way or another you will must handle change and release management. Actually, change management, and release management have ...
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Time to read, and with good music…

Finally i did receive the two books that i did buy from amazon.com: Solaris Internals (second edition) and Solaris Performance and Tools. The first edition of Solaris Internals, i did read while at university (UNISINOS), but i had not much access to Solaris environment that time, but the concepts of ...
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What really is a UNIX-like OS?

Ok, i think the answer for this question is uncertain and doubtful. There is something in GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris/OpenSolaris, MacOSX, AIX, that i really like, but i don't know what it is. Sad, but true. All that OS have a deep, really deep relation with each other, but wich is? ...
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POSIX-draft ACL and NFSv4 ACL

Before talking about what is what, and what is better, i will say that i do prefer the things working... If you are deploying Solaris ZFS/NFS services on your site, and you have GNU/Linux NFS clients, you will probably face problems like this sooner or later. The standard UNIX permissions scheme ...
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OpenSolaris GDM theme…

Sometime ago i was talking with others PoaOSUG members, about the creation of a custom GDM theme for the user group. So we can create a IPS package and give the users the option to personalize their desktops (laptops), with our own theme. Ok, that's the beauty of open software, ...
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What’s next?

I do remember when i did try to use The FreeBSD kernel with Debian userland softwares. I do remember when i have tryed/used the Solaris 9 environment with the NetBSD ports system, and Gentoo portage system too. Yesterday, i think that whole problem was fixed, with the release of the ...
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