On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Ken Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A bit of follow-up on things on the Blastwave IPS depot server and StarGazer.
>
> 1. http://blastwave.network.com:10000
This is a work in progress and there is no promise, yet, that
anything works there, yet.
> 2. OpenSolaris 2008.05 with new Sun Studio 05/08 C/C++ compiler.
The Studio compilers, from version 8 through 12 are installed
across the build stack
within Blastwave.org however only the newer Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris based
build servers will have Studio 12. Legacy servers have Sun ONE
Studio 8 and
Studio 11.
> 3. Full OpenSolaris-distro IPS 'platinum' packaging support.
Also a work in progress with FOSS maintainence contracts for
corporations that want
to ensure that they can continue to access updates. We are fully
aware that some
service organizations are now charging their customers for
installation fees to install
software built at Blastwave.
> 4. Easily supports multiple 'gmake -j 4' builds and SMP development
> environments.
However we do not make any assurance that the FOSS software is
multithreaded nor
will Blastwave promise that the software is well behaved. One
needs to review the FOSS
legal documents such as various licenses, disclaimers and
installation instructions.
> Blastwave.org currently supports and maintains over 1800 FOSS packages for
> Solaris 8/9/10 and OpenSolaris-based distros.
>
> A student can chose to select 'mythtv' from a GUI targeting a local IPS
> depot server and
> gets a nice "MythTV 0.21" installation with all the legalized dependencies.
> So simple
> even Dilbert could use it.
Or just play a movie, at full resolution if needed :
http://blastwave.network.com/images/mplayer_004.jpeg
http://blastwave.network.com/images/mplayer_005.jpeg
> Check out these updated packages for OpenSolaris 2008.05:
> Mplayer 1.0 - one of the very best DVD and video playback tools
> VLC 0.8.6f - a very powerful video media player
> SongBird 0.5 - the most powerful audio media player for
> OpenSolaris-based distros.
>
> ~ Ken Mays
Ken, I think you just became a marketing person. :-)
Dennis Clarke
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