Hey, Many interesting bits this week, including the 1st OpenSolaris developers conference, OpenSolaris on PPC, and updates on the SCM progress.
Glynn == > Dirk Wetter announced [1] the dates for the 1st OpenSolaris Developer > Conference, to be held at the Technical University of Berlin between February > 27th and March 2nd 2007. > > 1. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-October/000279.html > > > John Crowell anounced [2] the release of the Solaris PPC port, providing a > functional Solaris PPC development environment on selected targetted > platforms. > > 2. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-October/000280.html > > Derek Cicero announced [3] that build 49 of SXCR was now available. Erast > Benson > followed up saying [3] that build 49 of Nexenta OS was available, which > includes > all the latest BrandZ packages. > > 3. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-October/000284.html > 4. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-October/000282.html > > Glenn Lagasse announced [5] that the packaging tools had been updated for > build > 50, which also included a flag day, a fix for packages now being brand aware, > making build 49+ a requirement for building the sources. > > 5. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-October/000285.html > > Michelle Olson posted [6] the finalized 1.0 version of the Documentation Style > Guide for OpenSolaris. > > 6. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/2006-October/000616.html > > Alan Coopersmith mailed [7] saying that the original X server gates, > containing > Xsun and most of the client libraries and applications, and the Xorg gate had > now been merged reducing the complexity of the build system across SPARC and > x86 causing some update scripts to be obsoleted. > > 7. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2006-October/000332.html > > Bonnie Corwin mailed [8] an update about the SCM situation, with SVN live > repositories expecting to go live the week of 13th October, and a beta program > [9] for Mercurial to start on the week of the 9th October. Steve Lau gave a > brief overview [10] of what he hoped to accomplish for this. > > 8. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-October/000929.html > 9. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-October/000943.html > 10. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-October/000945.html > > Derek Crudgington mailed [11] to say that he had written a perl daemon that > ran > in the background to monitor SMF and email you when something happens. > > 11. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/smf-discuss/2006-October/001239.html > > Linda Bernal posted [12] the September edition of the OpenSolaris community > newsletter. Linda also posted [13] the latest notes from the program team for > the 4th October. > > 12. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/program-team/2006-October/000368.html > 13. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/program-team/2006-October/000376.html > > John Weekley proposed [14] a new project for wireless mesh networking, a > potential to provide low-cost, low administration overhead, metropolitan area > wireless networking using cheap, easily available hardware. > > 14. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-October/020757.html > > Steven Stallion proposed [15] a new project for an OpenSolaris ports system, > to > be based around the ports framework in BSD. > > 15. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-October/020820.html _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
