Sun's EMEA Globalization Centre unleashed an experimental project aiming to provide the OpenSolaris community with an ultimate translation solution. The Community Translation Interface (CTI) is a simple web application with a translation editor connected to the internal globalization management system powered by Idiom WorldServer.

Petr Tomášek, Róbert Malovec and Aleš Černošek presented the proposed translation model on Friday, June 27, 2008 in Prague's Hotel Masarykova kolej, which hosted the OpenSolaris Developer Conference 2008 (OSDevCon). The presentation slides are now available at the OSDevCon website and a video recording of all presentations will be available soon, according to the conference facilitators.

Even though the CTI web is already available on-line, it is still under construction and not considered stable. The presenters also demonstrated an immediate translation of a command-line application, which was then integrated into OpenSolaris via the IPS package manager. Such a successful proof of concept raised many questions regarding the future of CTI, its availability and acceptance by the community.

Bookmark this page (or the news feed) and stay tuned for more news related to the translation of OpenSolaris.

See also the blog of Jim Grisanzio or his Flickr photostream for OSDevCon 2008 Pictures.

Update: more pictures from OSDevCon 2008 to be found on Wolfgang Stief's photostream. 

Update #2: the CTI has now its own blog at http://blogs.sun.com/cti.

Trusted Extension is software what allow to turn on advanced security in Solaris OS. Its usage is intented for companies where are users divided in several security groups with different security access for files, hardware and so on. TX is based on labeled zones. Zones is technology used to virtualize OS services and provide an isolated and secure environment for running application. More about zones you can find on docs.sun.com (recommended keyword for this is "Containers") . Trusted Extensions has two types of labels: sensitivity labels and clearences. More about labels and TX again on docs.sun.com. If you want to try this interesting technology follow instruction on the link bellow. This howto should give you the basic guide how setup TX on Solaris.

http://wikis.sun.com/display/g11n/TrustedExtensionsHowto

Several weeks ago I tried to change miniroot in OpenSolaris and prepare image for automation of GUI installer. I tried to use command "root_archive unpack x86.microroot boot_workdir", but it doesn't work for me. So I find out how to unpack OpenSolaris miniroot. The steps are here:

1. Login in OpenSolaris LiveCD

2.  cp boot/x86.microroot /tmp/x86.microroot.gz

3.  gunzip /tmp/x86.microroot.gz

4.  mount -o nologging `lofiadm -a /tmp/x86.microroot` /mnt

5. In this step you can make some changes what you need

6. umount /mnt

7.  lofiadm -d /tmp/x86.microroot

8.  gzip -9 /tmp/x86.microroot

9. The last step is replace old miniroot with the new one

For this changing of miniroot I recommend to use image for USB stick, because in case of CD image you can have some troubles with creating bootable iso image.

  I have seen some feedback from community users of OpenSolaris 2008.05 complaining about missing language support. There is no Greek available for login or i18n of OpenSolaris is poor, there is no stuff for Polish etc ... Actually there is support for Greek, there is Polish language/locale available, so why the people are complaining ? 

  Before releasing OpenSolaris 2008.05 Sun had to decide what compression tool will be used for LiveCD. Space on LiveCD is quite limited and it is simply not possible to deliver everything. Full SXCE[Read More]