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Steve Lau announced [1] a scheduled downtime of the opensolaris.org infrastructure for 28th February 11am PST. This was to organize the move of several machines to new racks due to power constraints. 1.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-February/000911.html Alan Coopersmith announced [2] the drop of the X consolidation sources for build 60, including Xorg 7.2, 64 bit support, and the start of Xorg support for SPARC. 2.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-February/000916.html Jim Grisanzio announced [3] that a new OpenSolaris Starter DVD Kit can now be ordered from the download site [4]. This includes tutorials, docs, community distributions, source code, and tools. 3.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-March/000917.html 4.http://get.opensolaris.org/ Steve Lau announced [5] that build 59 of ON was now available. 5.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-March/000918.html Al Hopper officially announced [6] the start of the 2007 OGB elections, with a detailed status [7] of where things were at. 6.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-March/000919.html 7.http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/cab/OGB_Election_Status/ John Plocher regretably announced [8] that he would not accept his OGB nomination due to time and energy constraints. Shawn Walker [9], Karyn Ritter [10] and Alan DuBoff [11] all accepted their respective nominations. James Carlson indicated [12] that may also decline his nomination due to time constraints with an existing PSARC meeting, though it was pointed out [13] later on that the meetings would not necessarily conflict. 8.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-February/001668.html 9.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-March/001670.html 10.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-March/001680.html 11.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-March/001690.html 12.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-March/001688.html 13.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-March/001694.html Tasha Westmore announced [14] that she had updated the list of converted services for SMF, including manifests for Apache TomCat, PowerDNS and syslog-ng among others. 14.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/smf-discuss/2007-February/003548.html Margot Miller mailed [15] with some thoughts on hostid generation on x86 systems. Currently given that x86 systems don't have hardware hostid, Solaris generates a software identifier. Margot proposes to replace the current implementation with a simpler interface, looking for feedback on the ramifications of doing so. 15.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/2007-February/001754.html Martin Man blogged [16] from the recent OpenSolaris Developers Conference in Berlin. Jim Grisanzio followed up [17] with a link to some photos from the event. 16.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-March/025785.html 17.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-March/025804.html Glynn Foster proposed [18] a project for OpenSolaris' participation in the Google Summer of Code program [19], inviting anyone interested in helping out to join the mailing list [20]. 18.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/025736.html 19.http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html 20.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-March/025838.html
