" It is easy to play armchair quarterback after the game is over, but it still
doesn't change the outcome of the game...."
- John Plocher, talking about missed opportunities and
why OpenSolaris isn't using TeamWare
==
Steve Lau announced [1] that the ON bundles for the respins/backouts builds 55,
56 and 57 are now available. Steve also announced [2] that build 58 was now
available.
1.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-February/000889.html
2.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-February/000892.html
Milan Jurik announced [3] that the video of Darren Reed's presentation to CZOSUG
[4] talking about advances in Solaris networking has been uploaded.
3.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-February/000891.html
4.http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/czosug/
Derek Cicero announced [5] that build 57 of SXCE, the newly renamed Solaris
Express Community Edition, was now available.
5.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-February/000893.html
Dan Groves announced [6] the release of build 58 of project Clearview [7]. There
are no new features in this build, although IP Instances along with a number of
other ON features have been merged into the project gate.
6.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-February/000895.html
7.http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/clearview/
Stephen Harpster announced [8] the release of Solaris Express Developer Edition,
02/07, an OpenSolaris-based distribution for x86 that includes the latest tools,
technologies, and platforms to create applications for Solaris, Java, and Web
2.0, all available at no-cost.
8.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-February/000896.html
Roy Fielding provided [9] some details about the voting system used in Apache,
that would likely be similar for the OpenSolaris elections. Stephen Hahn posted
[10] draft minutes from the OGB call on the 7th Feb, detailing the discussion of
the position paper [11] that was published earlier the previous week by Al
Hopper detailing the OGB's recommendations for handling the ongoing GPLv3 dual
licensing discussion. Jim Grisanzio followed up [12] with concerns he had that
it was an attempt to thwart the discussion rather than lead it. Roy Fielding
replied [13] saying that he would favour the conversation to be richer,
containing actual facts and reasoning based on a common source of information,
noting that the conversation was continuing not necessarily from the
vested interest part of the community rather than casual observers. Al Hopper
later proposed [14] that the mechanism for project creation and criteria
involved would be a task that the new OGB would take on, after substantial
discussion on the lists this week.
9.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-February/001471.html
10.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-February/001556.html
11.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/024994.html
12.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/025069.html
13.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/025092.html
14.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-February/001538.html
Alan Coopersmith mailed [15] a heads up for the inclusion of Xorg 7.2 into
Nevada build 58. Major changes include 64-bit support for x86 and SPARC.
15.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2007-February/000982.html
Bonnie corwin posted [16] the latest meeting notes from the program team meeting
on the 7th February, including details of an OpenSolaris day at both JavaONE
[17] and OSCON [18] this year. Let Sara Dornsife know if you are interested in
helping out.
16.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/program-team/2007-February/000484.html
17.http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/index.jsp
18.http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2007/
Wyllys Ingersoll proposed [19] a new project for Solaris TPM (Trusted Platform
Module) drivers, with a goal to create the kernel drivers and cryptographic
framework plugins to facilitate secure computing work.
19.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/024987.html
Sherry Moore proposed [20] a new project to enable and enhance Solaris support
for Intel platforms, focusing initially on the Bensley [21] platform for
graphics, wifi and other drivers, performance improvements, CPU feature
enabling, power management support, FMA and virtualization support.
20.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/025034.html
21.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/025036.html
