Friday May 02, 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! :-)

• Tue Apr 1 04:37:03 PDT 2008
  The DTrace brendan() action :-)
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/dtrace-discuss/2008-April/005913.html
  
  
• Wed Apr 2 05:21:52 PDT 2008
  Community metrics: over 100,000 registrations on opensolaris.org
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/2008-April/002211.html
  
  
• Thu Apr 3 03:03:45 PDT 2008
  Farting birds on OpenSolaris!
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2008-April/013388.html
  
  
• Thu Apr 3 09:53:57 PDT 2008
  Hydra support
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2008-April/013790.html
  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2008/063/
  
  
• Monday April 07, 2008
  ZFS Expand-O-Matic RAID-Z - an exercise for the reader
  http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/expand_o_matic_raid_z
  
  
• Fri Apr 11 18:38:20 PDT 2008
  ZFS Boot
  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2006/370/
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2008-April/013864.html
  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2008041103/
  
  
• Mon Apr 14 17:04:32 PDT 2008
  Brussels - enhanced network driver config
  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2007/429/
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2008-April/013880.html
  
  
• Throughout April 2008
  OpenSolaris release candidates roll out, comments roll in
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2008-April/005522.html
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2008-April/thread.html
  
  
• Mon Apr 14 23:45:52 PDT 2008
  Belenix 0.7
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2008-April/001786.html
  
  
• Tue Apr 15 18:01:04 PDT 2008
  OpenSolaris.com design discussion
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/2008-April/004801.html
  
  
• Thu Apr 24 14:07:39 PDT 2008
  NICDRV Test Suite Released
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/driver-discuss/2008-April/005410.html
  
  
• Thu Apr 24 15:07:09 PDT 2008
  ARC Process project
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/arc-discuss/2008-April/000818.html
  
  
• Mon Apr 28 01:23:32 PDT 2008
  easySMF - web-based tool to build manifests
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2008-April/001796.html
  
  
• Mon Apr 28 08:13:37 PDT 2008
  NWAM gone wild
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/nwam-discuss/2008-April/005029.html
  
  
• Mon Apr 28 09:43:13 PDT 2008
  MilaX 0.3
  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/milax/
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2008-April/001797.html
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2008-April/001798.html
  
  
• Wed Apr 30 18:13:02 PDT 2008
  DTrace IP provider getting closer
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/networking-discuss/2008-April/018676.html