Tim Foster's Weblog

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!

• Sun May 4 03:00:27 PDT 2008
  Belenix 0.7 boots from RAM == a 10 minute install from a LiveCD boot!
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/belenix-dev/2008-May/000051.html
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/belenix-dev/2008-May/000052.html
  http://blogs.sun.com/sham/entry/belenix_0_7_can_boot
  
  
• Mon May 5 10:17:55 PDT 2008
  OpenSolaris 2008.05 is released!
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2008-May/001802.html
  http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/opensolaris_launch_at_communityone_pics
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2008-May/040356.html
  
  
• Tue May 6 11:19:11 PDT 2008
  Clearview early access bits available ( nv_89 based )
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/networking-discuss/2008-May/018689.html
  
  
• Wed May 7 10:41:51 PDT 2008
  OSDevCon2008 Program & Visitor Registration open
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2008-May/001803.html
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2008-May/001811.html
  
  
• Wed May 7 15:14:51 PDT 2008
  Hal Power Management Support
  http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2008/021/onepager
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2008-May/014013.html
  
  
• Tue May 13 15:00:57 PDT 2008
  No Root Login PSARC discussion
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/2008-May/thread.html#8599
  
  
• Tue May 13 17:14:33 PDT 2008
  man(1m) does the right thing without MANPATH
  http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2007/688/onepager
  http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2008051501/
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2008-May/014079.html
  
  
• Wed May 14 15:00:18 PDT 2008
  PowerTop 1.0 - CPU power state observability
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2008-May/001809.html
  
  
• Tue May 20 15:09:47 PDT 2008
  Putback of 6685348 Hypervisor event provider for DTrace
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2008-May/014110.html
  
  
• Wed May 21 01:58:54 PDT 2008
  EasyTools for OpenSolaris - simple web-based admin tools
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/observability-discuss/2008-May/000388.html
  
  
• Sat May 24 16:55:28 PDT 2008
  Moving on from 2008.05 - nv_90? Yes, we have the technology! (hint: it in't BFU :-)
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2008-May/006406.html
  
  
• Tue May 27 15:15:57 PDT 2008
  A map of OpenSolaris User Groups around the world
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/2008-May/002626.html
  http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=112071934198254642977.00044e321698d78fc9320&ll=12.51055,14.393935&spn=171.768097,360&z=1
  
  
• Tue May 27 18:26:40 PDT 2008
  More OpenSolaris approachability: lofi mounts via mount(1m)
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2008-May/014174.html
  http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2008/290/onepager/
  
  
• Wed May 28 17:28:28 PDT 2008
  OpenSolaris Automated Installer Prototype posted
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/2008-May/004018.html
  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/ai_prototype/
  
  
• Wed May 28 00:28:21 PDT 2008
  Bluetooth project alive again!
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2008-May/013994.html
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2008-May/014001.html
  
  
• Thu May 29 12:09:16 PDT 2008
  The sort of thing Crossbow can do - no such thing as silly questions!
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/crossbow-discuss/2008-May/001671.html
  
  
• Thu May 29 15:59:43 PDT 2008
  Solaris Cluster Core source code available
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2008-May/001822.html
  
  
• Fri May 30 13:13:20 PDT 2008
  FNFS and SMF test suites available
  http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2008-May/001824.html