There are 3 ways to run Linux binaries on a Solaris Express X86 server.
This post takes a look at the interesting world of the Linux branded zone. I’ve posted about VirtualBox before and I hope to take a look at xVM Server (Xen) in a future post. Read on for my first steps with Linux branded zones.
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For many years I’ve used an install of Gallery to manage my photos online, with a customised front end written for AxKit, and I’ve also been using Aperture to manage my photo library. Managing two separate libraries became a chore and meant that photos weren’t been uploaded for friends and family to view. I tried the built in Aperture web gallery functionality and found it to be rather inflexible and it didn’t handle hierarchies very well, the other option was to export to flickr or something similar, which I wasn’t keen on as I’d rather host the images myself.
So instead I decided to write my own exporting tool, you can see the end result at http://photos.tyr.org.uk the default view is a match of the project/folder/album structure within my Aperture library and the ‘quilt’ view (see top right) is just for fun. To export photos to the website I just tag them with the ‘Web’ keyword then run the export/sync script, it couldn’t be quicker and certainly much less hastle than maintaining two libraries.
Read on if you want to know more about how it was put together