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

    • Posted on: Mar 03, 2008

    Posted by: timf

    Category: OpenSolaris Monthly

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    Comments:

    Small correction: Belenix didn't win any FOSS.IN award, largely because FOSS.IN (a community driven event) does not (yet) have any awards. :)

    The award you are referring to was given by a commercial event that is unrelated to FOSS.IN or the Indian FOSS community (and is in fact sponsored by Microsoft). Their naming of the awards, and styling of the award logo, was deliberately designed to create precisely this confusion.

    Unfortunately, they (as usual) forgot to register the relevant domains, so we did it for them. Just trying to be helpful. :) http://foss-india.org

    None of this means that Belenix doesn't deserve an award - it certainly does! But got to remain factual :)

    Atul Chitnis
    Project Lead
    FOSS.IN

    Posted by Atuul Chitnis on March 04, 2008 at 03:01 AM GMT #

    Thanks for pointing that out Atuul! I'll update the body of the post to correctly refer to FOSS India rather than FOSS.IN -- I thought the two were the same thing, so it's been an education for me too!

    Posted by Tim Foster on March 04, 2008 at 09:57 AM GMT #

    Update: Schillix 0.6.3 is out using Nevada build 83! We also use it to run our CSW port of GNOME 2.22 (RC).

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