Hi, Here's OpenSolaris Weekly News #8. As always feedback, or content [from the missing represented communities] welcome. I probably did a poor job of summarizing the biggest thread this week on the Nevada Companion Software proposal - I blame Keith ;)
Glynn == Tom Erickson announced [1] Project Chime [2], a visualization tool for DTrace. Bryan Cantrill called out [3] for all advocates to post experiences of DTrace as a response to Stephen O'Grady's recent 'Linux response' blog [4], which started a thread of interesting experiences. 1. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/dtrace-discuss/2006-April/001442.html 2. http://opensolaris.org/os/project/dtrace-chime/ 3. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/dtrace-discuss/2006-April/001340.html 4. http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/001494.html Damien Carbery announced [5] that build 9 of JDS Vermillion was now available, including a number of new components. 5. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2006-April/000710.html Peter Tribble mailed [6] with an install breakdown of where time is spent, analyzing that decompression of packages, SMF import of manifests and installation order were possible low hanging fruit to improve on. Gary M. Gere followed up [7] with some explanation of how the install time order is currently defined. Glen Lagasse announced [8] that build 38 of the packaging tools was now available. 6. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/2006-April/000142.html 7. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/2006-April/000154.html 8. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/2006-April/000172.html Andrei Dorofeev announced [9] that a new version of the cardbus driver was available, given the old one was incompatible with build 37. Andrei also announced [10] that new versions of the ipw/iwi drivers were available. 9. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/2006-April/001032.html 10. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/2006-April/001043.html Ben Rockwood mailed [11] saying that he would be attending the MySQL conference, complete with a T2000 to demo OpenSolaris on. Drop by and say hi! 11. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-mktg/2006-April/000850.html Moazam Raja asked [12] what the availability of the font for the OpenSolaris logo. Sara Dornsife replied [13] saying that the logo was generated with a Sun font which wasn't being used in any Sun related presentations anymore. Stephen Lau asked [14] if that font was freely available. Laura Ramsey followed up [15] saying that they would look into getting that font cleared for use, provided the current trademark restrictions for OpenSolaris were followed. 12. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-mktg/2006-April/000825.html 13. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-mktg/2006-April/000829.html 14. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-mktg/2006-April/000840.html 15. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-mktg/2006-April/000842.html Martin Bochnig announced [16] marTux 0.1 Live CD, a SPARC based OpenSolaris distribution [17]. 16. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2006-April/000181.html 17. http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~mbeinsx/marTux/ Alan Coopersmith announced [18] that sources and changelog for the X consolidation to match Nevada build 38. This update contained a number of changes from the localization team to fix many keyboard layouts, along with other fixes. 18. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2006-April/000189.html Laura Ramsey mailed [19] saying that the April edition of Linux Format included a feature on OpenSolaris. She followed up with a PDF version of the article. 19. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015231.html Stephen Hahn posted [20] a technical status update for the OpenSolaris project. 20. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015205.html John Plocher announced [21] that the CLIP PSARC case, the command line interface guidelines, was now published on the ARC community. 21. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/arc-discuss/2006-April/000020.html Keith Wesolowski mailed [22] with a project proposal for the Nevada Companion CD. Dennis Clarke argued [23] that everything Keith was proposing was already available with Blastwave [24]. James Dickens replied [25] saying that it would be difficult to get going given that the CCD was a complete closed process. Keith followed up [26] explaining that the current 'CCD team' was just a small group of part time volunteers, and that he hoped to open up the process for all to contribute, with a caveat that this wasn't a project to kill off Blastwave [27]. 22. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015203.html 23. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015208.html 24. http://www.blastwave.org/ 25. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015247.html 26. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015252.html 27. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015269.html Darren Moffat proposed [28] a new project for OpenSolaris on Intel Mac hardware. Glenn Fadden proposed [29] a new community centered around Solaris Trusted Extensions, a focal point for several related technologies including multi-level networking, window systems, printing and applications. 28. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015285.html 29. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015403.html Jim Grisanzio mailed [30] saying that Google's 'Summer of Code' [31] scheme has been launched. Jim asked for people to send project ideas for people to participate in the OpenSolaris project. 30. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015441.html 31. http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
