Sparcitecture

I did the upgrade to Tiger last night, I chose the archive and install mode. Quite a bit of breakage so far:

• Codetek Virtual Desktop (crashes)
• PGP Desktop 8.1 (crashes, 9.0 beta works)
• Cisco VPN Client (crashes)
• Freefall (crashes)
• BurnoutMenu (crashes)
• Sidetrack (reinstall)
• Growl (reinstall)
• Quicksilver (upgraded, crashed on reboot)
• MenuCalandarClock (no longer aligns right)
• SoundSource (reinstall)
• MissingSync (reinstall, after a reinstall of Palm Desktop)
• Stuffit Expander (reinstall)
• Safari Stand (no compatible version)
• Saft (paid upgrade)

I have not tried:

• Ape
• Shapeshifter
• Silk
• WindowShade X
• fink

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ecto for MacOSX 2.3 available for download: The newest release of ecto features a cleaner look and support for Tiger.

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I just ordered the “Tiger” release of OSX (academic price). Being a relatively new convert to Mac, I am interested to see how smoothly the upgrade goes compared to Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Apparently there are three options:

1. Upgrade in place. This supposedly just upgrades the new system files, leaving your settings and applications in place.
2. Archive and install. This archives your current installation to a new folder, does a clean install, and migrates some settings over.
3. Clean install. Just what you’d expect - wipe the disk and install.

I am sure I have a lot of cruft lying about, but I am torn between the first and second. I guess I will see how much free time I have when it arrives and then make my choice.

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If you are looking for gtk-smooth-engine support in the JDS environment that ships with Solaris 10, it’s not there. Luckily it’s relatively easy to add. Download the latest version of the source code from the project site, unpack it, and issue the following commands:

# LDFLAGS=-R/usr/sfw/lib ./configure --enable-gtk-2 --prefix=/usr \
--with-x
# make
# make install

This will place libsmooth.so with the other GTK theme engines in /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4/engines/ where it will be accessible to the gnome-theme-manager in JDS. It will also keep the links to the appropriate libraries correct so no LD_LIBRARY_PATH-foo is needed.

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Seems like all patches, including kernel patches, can be applied in multi-user mode on Solaris 10 with smpatch. Does this mean no Recommended patch clusters?

# smpatch analyze
119145-01 SunOS 5.10: usr/snadm/lib Patch
119252-01 SunOS 5.10: System Administration Applications Patch
119015-01 SunOS 5.10: Packaging Commands Patch
119042-02 SunOS 5.10: patch usr/sbin/svccfg
117463-02 SunOS 5.10: passwdutil Patch
119143-02 SunOS 5.10: patch lib/libinetutil.so.1
118996-01 SunOS 5.10: patch usr/sbin/format
118959-01 SunOS 5.10: patch usr/bin/lastcomm and usr/bin/acctcom
118822-01 SunOS 5.10: kernel Patch
# smpatch update
119145-01 has been validated.
119252-01 has been validated.
119015-01 has been validated.
119042-02 has been validated.
117463-02 has been validated.
119143-02 has been validated.
118996-01 has been validated.
118959-01 has been validated.
118822-01 has been validated.
Installing patches from /var/sadm/spool...
119145-01 has been applied.
119252-01 has been applied.
119015-01 has been applied.
119042-02 has been applied.
117463-02 has been applied.
119143-02 has been applied.
118996-01 has been applied.
118959-01 has been applied.
118822-01 has been applied.
/var/sadm/spool/patchpro_dnld_2005.04.12@14:13:04:EDT.txt
has been moved to /var/sadm/spool/patchproSequester/
patchpro_dnld_2005.04.12@14:13:04:EDT.txt

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Disabling the X server from listening on the network is handled using smf’s svccfg command in Solaris 10.

# svccfg
svc:> select application/x11/x11-server
svc:/application/x11/x11-server> listprop
options                       application
options/default_depth         integer  24
options/server                astring  /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun
options/server_args           astring
options/stability             astring  Evolving
options/tcp_listen            boolean  true
...
svc:/application/x11/x11-server> setprop options/tcp_listen = false
svc:/application/x11/x11-server> end

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