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

Comments:

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 #

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