Hey, LIVE from the O'Reilly Conference in Portland, Oregon I bring you the latest news from OpenSolaris - it's been a busy week, and a bloody miracle I've managed to get it out :)
Glynn == > John Levon announced [1] that a new Xen release was now available, for both > binaries > and source code, adding support for Solaris domain 0, 64-bit, MP, and working > Solaris > features like DTrace among many other updates [2]. > > 1. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-July/000192.html > 2. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/relnotes/ > > Steve Lau announced [3] new builds for ON, including the nightly and Mecurial > changesets. > > 3. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-July/000194.html > > Eric Boutilier announced [4] that 3 historical ARC cases had now been > published - > PSARC 2004/471 'dispadmin(1M) -d behavior change, -u option', PSARC 2005/485 > 'Zone Rename', and PSARC 2006/134 'logadm(1m) $zonename keyword'. > > 4. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/arc-discuss/2006-July/000034.html > > Sara Dornsife mailed [5] with a proposal for the trademark plan for > OpenSolaris. > Sara mentioned that this was a significant achievement, allowing a 3rd party > to grant 3rd parties permission to use a Sun trademark. > > 5. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-July/000568.html > > Ken Mays announced [6] that the latest GNOME development 2.16 packages had > been > merged into Blastwave. > > 6. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2006-July/001545.html > > Andrei Dorofeev mailed [7] with a heads up for new updated ipw/iwi wireless > drivers for build 44 of Nevada, because the current ones caused a panic. The > 0.5 package should only be used for post 44 builds. > > 7. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/2006-July/001532.html > > Sara Dornsife invited [8] anyone who came around to the booth at OSCON > to a free orange OpenSolaris shirt. > > 8. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-mktg/2006-July/001542.html > > Dan Price reported [9] that he had made significant cleanups to webrev [10], > adding > a PDF version of the review materials. > > 9. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-July/000742.html > 10. http://cr.grommit.com/ > > Bryan O'Sullivan announced [11] that Mercurial 0.9.1 [12] was now released > including > a huge number of new features and performance updates. > > 11. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-July/000760.html > 12. http://selenic.com/mercurial/release > > Linda Bernal posted [13] new search mockups of the bugs.opensolaris.org. Linda > mentioned that she didn't yet have a timeline for these changes. > > 13. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/2006-July/000724.html > > Teresa Giacomini proposed [14] a new project proposal, the OpenSolaris starter > kit, focusing on installation of an OpenSolaris distribution on an x86/x64 > laptop. > > 14. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-July/018605.html > > Victor Li proposed [15] a new project for iSNS server, for RFC4171 Internet > Storage Name Service. > > 15. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-July/018644.html > > Alexey Starovoytov proposed two projects [16][17] for the support of GCCfss > and > gcc 4 in ON, and integration of GCCfss into SFW. > > 16. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-July/018650.html > 17. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-July/018651.html > > Anders Persson proposed [18] a project for MIB support into OpenSolaris, for > several new RFC's that specify new MIBs for IP, ICMP, TCP and UDP. > > 18. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-July/018669.html > > Nils Nieuwejaar announced [19] that a new build of BrandZ was available, > bringing things in sync with Nevada build 43, also introducing a new > installer. > > 19. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-July/018693.html > > Danek Duvall proposed [20] that the current ONNV community should be renamed > to > just ON, where ONNV would more likely become a project instead. Steve Lau > followed up [21] with a project proposal, which would host the main ON > mercurial > repository. > > 20. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-July/018710.html > 21. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-July/018733.html _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
