OpenSolaris In Review - January 2009
With all the snow falling in my home town, leaving me homebound, you would think there would be adequate time for me to compile OpenSolaris news for January 2009 earlier ... but alas it didn't work that way. Here is an summary of OpenSolaris news for January 2009. As always, please feel free to point out anything relevant I missed.
OpenSolaris Test Farm Development Zones and Open Access
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2009-January/002002.html
New packages added to the /pending repository
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2009-January/002019.html
The OpenSolaris Newsletters: A Clarification
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2009-January/002022.html
New Man Page Consolidation Now Available
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2009-January/002023.html
Sun Enhancements to OpenSolaris Take Aim at Linux (eWeek Article)
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2009-January/002024.html
New Docs Consolidation Now Available
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2009-January/002025.html
Sun Establishes First Open Source Standard for Storage Encryption Solutions
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/kmsagenttoolkit/
CommunityOne East - Open. Innovation. Choice.
http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/2009/east/index.jsp
Migration from Debian to OpenSolaris
http://blogs.sun.com/sunwg11nprg/entry/migration_from_debian_to_opensolaris?intcmp=2224
OpenSolaris Project: Bluetooth Stack & Drivers
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/bluetooth/
DIY: Home NAS Box with OpenSolaris and ZFS
http://blogs.sun.com/mebius/entry/diy_home_nas_box_with2
Requesting New OpenSolaris Projects
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/requesting_new_opensolaris_projects
New Book: OpenSolaris Bible
http://blogs.sun.com/nsolter/entry/announcing_the_opensolaris_bible
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470385480.html
OpenSolaris 2008.11 as dom0
http://blogs.sun.com/levon/entry/opensolaris_2008_11_as_a1
Sun + Intel + OpenSolaris + 2 Years = The Year of Core
http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/01/22/sun-intel-opensolaris-2-years-the-year-of-core/
Tomcat 6 in OpenSolaris
http://blogs.sun.com/psum/entry/tomcat_6_in_opensolaris
Drupal 6.9, OpenSolaris and Web Stack 1.4: The Perfect Installation Experience
http://blogs.sun.com/web/entry/drupal_6_9_opensolaris_and
Sun Device Detection Tool 2.2 for OpenSolaris and Solaris
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.jsp
Screencast: Installing OpenSolaris in VirtualBox
http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/screencast_installing_opensolaris_in_virtualbox
OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2
http://blogs.sun.com/ec2/entry/opensolaris_2008_11_on_amazon
Introduction to Developing on OpenSolaris
http://blogs.sun.com/video/entry/introduction_to_developing_in_opensolaris
What's New with the AMP Stack in OpenSolaris 2008.11
http://blogs.sun.com/natarajan/entry/what_s_new_with_amp1
New OpenSolaris Storage Community Page
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/storage/
A Hands on Introduction to ZFS Pools
http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/a_hands_on_introduction_to
OpenSolaris at CES 2009
http://explore.toshiba.com/pressrelease/433653?fromPage=editorials
Writing Your First PHP Web Application on the OpenSolaris OS
http://developers.sun.com//solaris/articles/phptutorial/index.html
Notable Putback Notifications
PSARC 2008/778 asprintf, vasprintf
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2009-January/008321.html
PSARC 2008/753 Reflecting Fan/Power Supply Diagnosis in Solaris
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2009-January/008301.html
PSARC 2008/628 Interrupt Resource Management
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2009-January/008336.html
PSARC 2007/272 Project Clearview: IPMP Rearchitecture
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2009-January/008259.html
PSARC 2008/751 ZyDAS ZD1211 USB 802.11b/g Wireless Driver
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2009-January/008277.html
Nice summary Scott. It's probably worth browsing the ON notify alias, eg. for January
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2009-January/thread.html
Of these, here are some notable project putbacks (in no particular order):
PSARC 2008/778 asprintf, vasprintf
PSARC 2008/753 Reflecting Fan/Power Supply Diagnosis in Solaris
PSARC 2008/628 Interrupt Resource Management
PSARC 2007/272 Project Clearview: IPMP Rearchitecture
PSARC 2008/751 ZyDAS ZD1211 USB 802.11b/g Wireless Driver
Posted by Tim Foster on February 24, 2009 at 04:28 AM EST #
Added 'Notable Putback Notifications' per Tim's recommendation. Thanks Tim.
Posted by Scott Seighman on February 26, 2009 at 10:02 AM EST #