Last night at the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris Users Group meeting we had
a very special treat, Scott Nelson (Dir. of Business Development, Helix
Community from Real Networks) spoke to us about Real, the Helix
Community, and answered questions regarding Solaris development
efforts. At this meeting many of us learned that more activity is
already active that we know. Here are some notes:
1) Sun has a dedicated engineer to the Helix Community for Solaris
support: /Margot Miller.
She's been working on Helix/RealPlayer support for Solaris (both X86 and
SPARC) since December! There are many challenges she's had to face but
she's made tremendous progress.
2) Anyone who's interested can work together with Margot and the Helix
Community on the Helix Community "Porting-Solaris" mailing list:
http://lists.helixcommunity.org/mailman/listinfo/porting-solaris (You
can find a list of all the Helix mailing lists here:
http://lists.helixcommunity.org/mailman/listinfo)
3) Much of this work is being done with the hopes of packaging
Helix/RealPlayer with JDS in future builds (S10 U2 or U3); we're going
to be seeing a lot of RealPlayer/Helix in the future.
4) A large effort has been underway by both Sun and Real to make this
happen for some time now, the effort has simply gone unnoticed by most
of us. I highly recommend that you read through the archives of the
Helix Porting-Solaris mailing list to catch up on where things are at.
I leave it at that for now. The big take away here is that we have a
small community headed by Margot at Helix working on Solaris/OpenSolaris
support and we need to provide some linkage between their efforts and
OpenSolaris. Claire/ Giordano was present at the meeting last night as
well and we all talked over ways to bring our efforts together; this
mail is the first step. In the coming days I think we should try and
get some links up on OpenSolaris.org and make sure that anyone in the
OpenSolaris community thats interested in helping out with Helix has the
resources they need to hook up with Margot and the others working on the
effort.
Now if only Adobe would be so proactive. :)
Tremendous thanks go to Scott Nelson and Margot Miller for all their
continued efforts that will benefit us all.
benr.
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