Fall weather is finally starting to come to Southern California and we enjoyed a seasonally cool weekend. I managed not to work most of the weekend, but did have a few things to share.
With so much excitement around the release of the first
OpenSolaris Developer Preview last week, few people even noticed we released an updated
Cool Stack 1.2. Just in time for the cool fall weather, with Cool Stack 1.2 you get blazing fast Solaris optimized versions of the following open source software which no web developer or web hosting site should be without:
CSKamp. This package is now comprised of 3 packages: CSKapache2, CSKphp5 and CSKmysql32 for a more flexible installation. The 3 components are pre-configured to work together. The MySQL included in this package is a 32-bit version with client-side support to work with PHP. For the database server, we recommend the CSKmysql package which is a 64-bit version, allowing the use of larger caches to deliver improved performance for large databases. However, on smaller systems you can use the 32-bit MySQL in this (CSKamp) package for the database server.
CSKruntime. New! This package containes core libraries used by many of the other packages and should be installed first.
CSKmysql. This package includes a 64bit version of MySQL5 and is built with innodb. See the README file in the mysql install directory for details.
CSKperl. This package includes Perl 5. In addition to being better optimized, CSKperl includes several perl extensions used by popular applications.
CSKphplibsbundle This package consists of libraries required by various PHP extensions and is made up of 3 packages: CSKtds, CSKncurses, CSKphplibs
CSKmemcached. This package includes memcached, a distributed object cache system.
CSKsquid. This package includes Squid Web Proxy Cache.
CSKtomcat. This package includes Apache Tomcat which is a pure Java application. It is provided for convenience as it is no different from the one on tomcat.apache.org.
CSKlighttpd. New! This package includes lighttpd, the increasingly popular, light-weight http server.
In internal testing, we found these optimized packages are often 50-75% faster than unoptimized versions of the same code, and in some cases much much faster than that. I'm always amazed what our performance engineering team is able to crank out.
Speaking of cranking out, in the first three days since it's release, we had a big increase in downloads of the OpenSolaris Developer Preview. Not bad for the very first Project Indiana release which is advertised with
limitations like This release is a prototype. Not all features are complete.
If I have any complaint about the first developer preview, it is that we didn't spend the time to do any cool artwork for the CD. Of course we weren't actually expecting so many folks would be interested in our little prototype. I'm hoping the OpenSolaris community has some budding artists that can come up with some cool designs for the next developer preview.
But it is still the weekend, so back to a little more fun. I did happen to catch one young community member that managed to snag a pretty cool hoodie that I think even
Softwear Chic would say is cool.
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