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20080702 Wednesday July 02, 2008

OpenSolaris in review June 2008

Here's the news for June 2008 - things are still pretty hectic for me as I continue to learn my new day-job, so haven't been able to keep on top of the news as much as I'd like, and I've got a sinking feeling I'm missing some important stuff in the list below. So, if you feel like helping out, please add comments to this post.

If you really want to help out, and would like to become a guest-editor for July's news, drop me a mail and I'll send on the scripts I use when compiling the list - it'll still be a pretty time consuming task though (2 or 3 hours, typically), but it's for a good cause!

So, without further ado, here's some of the stuff that went on in June:

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20080602 Monday June 02, 2008

OpenSolaris in review May 2008

Here's my roll-up of news on opensolaris.org during May - usual rules apply: if I've missed anything you care about, or have inaccuracies in my posts below, feel free to add comments.

I didn't manage to keep on top of news as much as I'd have liked during the month, so if the sysadmins notice that server logs on mail.opensolaris.org were a bit busier than usual for a Sunday evening, well, that was probably me digging around for links to post. Anyway enjoy!

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20080502 Friday May 02, 2008

OpenSolaris in review April 2008

Okay - here's my monthly roll-up of news from April. The usual rules apply - if there's something important I've missed, feel free to add a comment with more pointers. If the list below looks like there's slightly less news than usual, then that's probably because I'm eager to get offline and start my vacation (2 weeks in sunny Spain, family included! Viva España! :-)

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20080401 Tuesday April 01, 2008

OpenSolaris in review March 2008

Here's the news for March - rather hastily thrown together I'm afraid, as I'm pretty busy on ZFS Root/Install test work (which hopefully will make next month's news :-) So as usual, the standard disclaimer applies: if you know of other interesting stuff that's going on, feel free to add a comment to this post.

I'm presenting this month and last month's news at the IE-OSUG meeting tonight so watch our podcast feed for the audio commentary when we get tonight's episode posted.

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20080303 Monday March 03, 2008

OpenSolaris in review February 2008

Here's my latest roll-up of OpenSolaris news for February. Last month was pretty hectic for me (and for the rest of the project, based on the length of the list below!) - my day-job is busy right now, as well as having to prepare for the FOSDEM weekend. We didn't manage to get an IE-OSUG meeting organised, so there's no audio commentary on any of these items below just yet. I'll add a comment as soon as we have that recorded.

In the meantime, dive into the list below, and please feel free to suggest items I left out as comments to this post!

  • Wed Feb 6 18:00:39 PST 2008
    PSARC 2008/050 DTrace NFS v3 Provider
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2008-February/013428.html
    http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2008/050/onepager/

  • Thu Feb 7 10:51:26 PST 2008
    Automated installer requirements discussion started
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/2008-February/002233.html
    http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/auto_requirements/

  • Fri Feb 8 18:45:01 PST 2008
    Further informal conversations around Conary
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/arc-discuss/2008-February/000658.html
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/arc-discuss/2008-February/000659.html
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/arc-discuss/2008-February/000663.html

  • Fri Feb 8 19:46:11 PST 2008
    SCM Migration status update
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/on-discuss/2008-February/000051.html

  • Sun Feb 10 21:50:30 PST 2008
    Nexenta Core Platform & Builder 1.0 released
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2008-February/001738.html
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2008-February/001739.html

  • Mon Feb 11 10:51:42 PST 2008
    More Schillix - 0.6.2
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2008-February/038814.html

  • Tue Feb 12 20:03:51 PST 2008
    Test development project opens
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2008-February/001742.html

  • Tue Feb 12 17:54:43 PST 2008
    OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 available
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2008-February/001741.html

  • Wed Feb 13 19:57:26 PST 2008
    PSARC 2005/695 CIFS Client on Solaris
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2008-February/013453.html
    http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2008021301/

  • Thu Feb 14 18:49:51 PST 2008
    Showing off Crossbow
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/crossbow-discuss/2008-February/001550.html
    http://blogs.sun.com/droux/entry/private_virtual_networks_for_solaris

  • Fri Feb 22 05:08:05 PST 2008
    Belenix wins FOSS India award
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2008-February/001750.html
    http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/24867/news.htm

  • Fri Feb 22 05:08:05 PST 2008
    OpenSolaris Members Meeting
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2008-February/001757.html

  • Sat Feb 23 18:30:37 PST 2008
    OGB Election Candidates
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2008-February/039132.html
    http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/2008_OGB_Election_candidates

  • Tue Feb 26 11:23:59 PST 2008
    pkg(5) draft one-pager: Why we're changing the packaging system
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2008-February/001852.html
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2008-February/001906.html

  • Tue Feb 26 00:04:14 PST 2008
    Ideas for OpenSolaris projects
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2008-February/039201.html

  • Wed Feb 27 01:28:12 PST 2008
    Milax: Damn Small OpenSolaris, a ~70mb distro
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/belenix-discuss/2008-February/000329.html
    http://milax.org/

  • Thu Feb 28 02:54:05 PST 2008
    Printer auto-magic: Presto Phase II
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/printing-discuss/2008-February/000736.html

  • Thu Feb 28 07:12:06 PST 2008
    50 ways to install OpenSolaris (well, 8 anyway!)
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2008-February/039240.html

  • Thu Feb 28 10:39:01 PST 2008
    Filebench 1.1.1 available
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/perf-discuss/2008-February/003260.html

  • Fri Feb 29 16:20:46 PST 2008
    FMRI terms available in process contracts
    http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/dtrace-discuss/2008-February/005745.html

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    20080131 Thursday January 31, 2008

    OpenSolaris in review January 2008

    January's been a busy month in OpenSolaris. As usual, feel free to update the comments with stuff I've unintentionally left out!

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    20080104 Friday January 04, 2008

    OpenSolaris in review December 2007

    Sorry these are a bit late - I was busy enjoying festive cheer over the holidays! As always, please feel free to add comments if I'm missing anything important, and I'll update the main post. There's no audio commentary this month, as we didn't hold an IE-OSUG meeting in December, and I didn't get a chance to record a podcast of me reading these - hopefully the links alone will tell the stories.

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    20071127 Tuesday November 27, 2007

    OpenSolaris in review, November 2007

    Here are the monthly OpenSolaris highlights for November - I'm presenting these at tonight's IE-OSUG meeting. Feel free to add comments if you think I'm missing something significant (and apologies in advance if I left out your favourite project!)

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    20071105 Monday November 05, 2007

    Tim's OpenSolaris news in review

    Coté suggested that the monthly OpenSolaris reviews that I've been doing would be great to have in an RSS feed somewhere. That makes sense - so I've put together this one: fire up your RSS readers, and point them to:

    http://blogs.sun.com/timf/feed/entries/rss?cat=/OpenSolaris+Monthly

    Of course, there is also the excellent OpenSolaris Newsletter - but I think it can't hurt to have more than one view of events out there, and specifically, these are my view of things. (as if OpenSolaris.org needs more opinions at the moment ! :-)

    I could well be missing important projects, misinterpreting the significance of events, and otherwise getting things downright wrong, but I do try my best. So please, treat these not as a canonical reference of everything that's been happening, but more as a window into OpenSolaris, why it's exciting, and what you can get involved with.

    I put these together each month for the Irish OpenSolaris User Group meetings, which are recorded on our podcast: often the verbal commentary is as useful as the raw links themselves I think, but the links are still handy to have - here's the story so far:

    For future reviews, I'll just inline html here - and point to to the relevant podcast episodes with each. Comments welcome.

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