13 October 2015

Valgrind running on Solaris

The latest Valgrind 3.11.0 (Valgrind news) has many new changes and bug fixes. One of the interesting new additions is Solaris/x86 support.

Detailed here;

Valgrind: Easy and powerful detection of memory and threading problems

Valgrind is an extremely useful and powerful debugger tool for native code developers on Linux. You really do miss the extremely detailed analysis and help it offers when developing on systems with no Valgrind support. It's fun to see the platform support expand.

Valgrind: downloads


16 July 2015

Suse Throws Enterprise Linux Weight Behind 64-bit ARM Servers

ARM might be gaining some traction in the enterprise? 64-bit ARM look to make more progress

Suse Throws Enterprise Linux Weight Behind 64-bit ARM Servers


10 July 2015

New Release - Solaris 11.3 Beta


A huge list of blog entries and topics here, showcasing new features of Solaris 11.3
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/entry/solaris_11_3_bloglist

I was surprised to see new POSIX threading APIs.