OpenPKG CVS Repository
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Server: cvs.openpkg.org Name: Ralf S. Engelschall
Root: /v/openpkg/cvs Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Module: openpkg-web Date: 17-Oct-2005 21:54:45
Branch: HEAD Handle: 2005101720544500
Modified files:
openpkg-web/press PR-011-openpkg-2.5.txt
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http://www.openpkg.org/ -- Munich, DE -- 2005-10-19 -- The
OpenPKG project is proud to announce version 2.5 of its software,
- another evolutionary step after eight releases in four years.
+ another evolutionary step after nine releases in four years.
Much valued by IT decision makers and beloved by Unix system
administrators, OpenPKG is the world leading instrument for deployment
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
This is the second release created by the recently established OpenPKG
Foundation e.V., which contributed a substantial amount of manpower
and all the technical resources making up the "build farm" and the
- development environment for the release engineers.
+ development environment for release engineering.
Since the previous release four months ago, the OpenPKG package
repository has grown to 904 packages. A subset of 579 packages were
@@ -30,14 +30,16 @@
like Apache, Bash, BIND, GCC, INN, Mozilla Firefox, MySQL, OpenSSH,
Perl, Postfix, PostgreSQL, Samba, Squid, teTeX and Vim.
- Major technical efforts for this release were spent on migrating the
- GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) from version 3.4 to 4.0. This required
- a lot of vendor sources to be patched to pass the stronger standard
- constraints followed by GCC 4.0. Additionally, on Solaris 10 we
- finally switched OpenPKG from using legacy init-scripts to the new
- Service Management Facility (SMF). Furthermore, this OpenPKG version
- already fully supports the brand new FreeBSD 6.0 and OpenSUSE Linux
- 10.0 operating system versions.
+ Major technical efforts for this release were spent on migrating from
+ the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) version 3.4 to the latest version
+ 4.0. This required a lot of vendor sources to be adjusted to pass
+ the stronger standard constraints of GCC 4.0. Additionally, generous
+ sponsoring from the industry allowed us to add back full official
+ support for the important Solaris 10/SPARC platform. On Solaris 10
+ we also finally switched OpenPKG from using legacy init-scripts to
+ the new Service Management Facility (SMF). Furthermore, this OpenPKG
+ version already fully supports the brand new FreeBSD 6.0 and OpenSUSE
+ Linux 10.0 platforms.
OpenPKG 2.5 is available for 19 different Unix platforms. Most
notably, it is supported on FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0, NetBSD 2.0.2, Debian
@@ -95,7 +97,7 @@
Thomas Lotterer in January 2005. A month later, on 2005-02-09, nine
founders kicked off the Foundation. Official registration under German
law was completed on 2005-03-18. The OpenPKG Foundation finally went
- public on 2005-06-21.
+ public on 2005-06-21 and currently consists of eighteen members.
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