Hey, Apologies for the delays in the weekly news - working on getting through the mail archives over the last couple of weeks and summarizing the older news.
Glynn == > Derek Cicero announced [1] that Solaris Express Community Release build 54 > was now available, introducing some useful 'latest' symlinks for people to use > for the releases. > > 1. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-December/000848.html > > Jim Walker announced [2] the release of the NFSv4 test suite, the first of > several ON consolidation test suites. Steve Lau announced [3] that the sources > for SCCS/make were now available at the devpro download page. > > 2. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-December/000850.html > 3. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-December/000851.html > > Young Joo Pintaske announced [4] the release of the Solaris globalization > source > code, with a focus initially on the OS locales and system libraries including > numerous iconv code conversions. Work will continue to get these sources into > a > public code repository. > > 4. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-December/000861.html > > Bernard Traversat announced [5] the release of Project Looking Glass 1.0, an > innovative Java 3D windowing system that delivers a full 3D experimental > desktop > environment. > > 5. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2006-December/004919.html > > Derek Cicero mailed [6] saying that he had updated a new downloads page to be > a > little more obvious in what software was available for download. > > 6. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/2006-December/002871.html > > Steve Lau reported [7] that there was an unscheduled downtime on the mail > machine causing the mailman archives to be broken. Steve took the existing > archives offline for the moment, until a better fix could be made early in the > new year. > > 7. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/2006-December/002890.html > > Joey Guo mailed [8] a proposal for how to engage academics into the > OpenSolaris > program, with a specific focus on China, asking for feedback and participation > from anyone interested. > > 8. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-December/022680.html > > Linda Bernal posted [9] say that the OpenSolaris community newsletter for > December would be merged into January. > > 9. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-December/022688.html > > Kuldip Oberoi announced [10] the 3rd build in the Sun Studio Express Program, > called Sun Studio Express December 2006. > > 10. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-December/022756.html > > Sowmini Varadhan proposed [11] a new project to unify NIC configuration > through > dladm. The initial phase of this project will involve the provision of a > generic > configuration management interface for Nemo (and non-Nemo, via softmac) > drivers via dladm. > > 11. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/networking-discuss/2006-December/009065.html
