ALL Solaris and OpenSolaris users :
As of this morning and after focused effort by many people in the
community, we now have 1,800 software packages at Blastwave.org which
are all in the standard SVR4 style package format. They are all built
to run on Solaris 10 and Solaris 9 and Solaris 8 and if you choose to
do a minor amount of work they will probably run fine with OpenSolaris
also. They are free to download and thanks to the Debian like pkg-get
tools from Philip Brown you can install them from at least forty
public mirror sites world wide. There is a shiney new primary site at
http://blastwave.network.com thanks to the great guys inside
Network.com.[1]
We have spent the past few days in the same way as we spend many
of our days, installing software packages and running tests and doing
test reports for software packages built within the Blastwave server
stack. Responding to bug reports and dropping oven fresh warm packages
into the Blastwave test zone. Oh, and with myself and Philip Brown
chasing after maintainers and doing sysadmin work. We are also
installing OpenSolaris based AMD Opteron servers for community people
to use, setting up fibre based storage so that people can have their
own zones with room to play as well as Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 Branded
Zones for compatibility testing.[2] Among other upgrades. This is a
busy place with a non-trivial number of community people using it
daily, everyday and around the clock. I hope to grow Blastwave.org
forwards with the OpenSolaris community in both capacity and offerings
for years to come.
Today would be a great day to look at
http://www.blastwave.org/sponsors/donation.html
I feel strongly about the need for pure community based software
operations that are entirely focused on the needs of the Solaris user
as well as the OpenSolaris user. Do not be surpirsed if I bolt a small
corporate operation onto the side of Blastwave.org ( in the form of
Blastwave.com and OPN4 - Open For Business ) which will provide some
product based services. This is the right path to follow in order to
ensure that this service keeps running and growing long term.
Dennis Clarke
Blastwave.org
[1] edit your pkg-get.conf to point to either the unstable ( rapidly
changeing ) or stable tree thus :
use vi to edit /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get.conf
set the url to url=http://blastwave.network.com/csw/unstable
or
set the url to url=http://blastwave.network.com/csw/stable
and then run "/opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -U" to fetch the catalog
run /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -a to get a full catalog list
run "/opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -i foo" to install any package foo
Be sure to check out the mirror site list at
http://www.blastwave.org/mirrors.html
[2] FYI : see my article about Solaris 8 Branded Zones at
http://www.blastwave.org/articles/BLS-0065/index.html
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This message was inspired by the warm thanks from Alan Duboff
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From: Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] was Alpine, now Exim...
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[email protected], Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> Two things :
>
> 1) happening :
> 2 ) working on it :
Wow, sounds good. I know a lot of folks use your packages, and I'm
sure they will benifit from it greatly. Good stuff!
Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
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