I'm pleased to announce that the pkgsrc-2013Q2 release for illumos platforms is now available. This is an alternative repository of over 10,000 binary packages built for illumos systems.
A quick-start tutorial is available here: http://www.perkin.org.uk/pages/pkgsrc-binary-packages-for-illumos.html and an overview of the changes for pkgsrc-2013Q2 is available here: http://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/whats-new-in-pkgsrc-2013Q2.html One of the major improvements with the 2013Q2 release is a working Xorg for illumos, and this has allowed us to demonstrate some of the available desktop environments, using OmniOS as the base platform: GNOME 2.32 with Evolution and Firefox 22: http://www.perkin.org.uk/files/images/2013Q2-gnome.png KDE 4.10.3: http://www.perkin.org.uk/files/images/2013Q2-kde4.png XFCE 4.6 with Gnumeric and Abiword: http://www.perkin.org.uk/files/images/2013Q2-xfce4.png Enlightenment 0.17 with GIMP: http://www.perkin.org.uk/files/images/2013Q2-e17.png Awesome: http://www.perkin.org.uk/files/images/2013Q2-awesome.png This of course is just a selection, there are many more environments and applications available, as well as all the usual development tools and miscellaneous Unix utilities. Please let us know if software you need is missing, and feel free to raise bug reports for things which aren't working as expected. You can find URLs for these in the installation tutorial above. Thanks, -- Jonathan Perkin - Joyent, Inc. - www.joyent.com ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
