Friday June 22, 2007
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Friday June 22, 2007
OpenSolaris and X: Year 2
I'm a bit late this year - it's now a year and a week since I posted One Year of OpenSolaris and X, and it's been a busy time.
Unfortunately, I can't say that we've released lots more code than in our first year - there's still many client applications and libraries that need to be migrated to the X.Org versions - but we have moved the source base for what we've released from the Imake-built X11R6.9 monolithic source tree to source modules from the X11R7.2 release. With the 7.2 move, we also grew the set of servers delivered from the current X.Org sources from just a 32-bit x86 Xorg by adding 64-bit Xorg servers on both SPARC and x64, as well as the Xephyr nested server and Xvfb virtual frame buffer on both platforms.
Sun's China team integrated DRI support for Intel i845 through i945 graphics, with i965 coming soon. We've also added libraries from X.Org that we hadn't shipped before, including libXcomposite and libXinerama.
Work continues on converting the rest, and may pick up with some community members joining in. The OpenSolaris X community has been discussing a proposal to create a common source repository merging the X efforts of the Solaris Express, Belenix, and marTux distributions. Martin Bochnig has been working for a while on marTux, an OpenSolaris distro for SPARC - and the only one with open source SPARC Xorg drivers he's put a lot of effort into making work well on OpenSolaris. And in April, Moinak Ghosh announced he'd taken our code drops and packaging and filled in the rest of the X11R7.2 sources. By merging these, we hope to keep all distributions better aligned and make it easier for us to work together on the missing pieces.
What else are we working on? Well, like last year, the OpenSolaris suspend-and-resume team is still hard at work making their code as rock-solid as they can, including the graphics support in Xorg. We're looking at the best way to integrate Xvnc into our code base in support of the OpenSolaris Xen work. And of course, we've been playing with the projects now known as “Compiz Fusion”, using the builds from Erwann in the Desktop group, so that maybe by the time I write next year's entry, you will have a Solaris desktop option that looks a bit like this.
Posted at 11:49PM Jun 22, 2007 by Alan Coopersmith in Solaris | Comments[2]
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