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Subject:    [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Weekly News #26
From:       Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster () Sun ! COM>
Date:       2006-08-28 12:10:26
Message-ID: 44F2DD32.9030407 () sun ! com
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Hey,

Here's the latest weekly news.


Glynn

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> Derek Cicero announced [1] that build 46 of Solaris Express Community Edition
> was now available.
> 
> 1. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-August/000222.html
> 
> Nicolas Droux announced [2] that an early access release of Crossbow, providing
> a building block for network virtualization and resource control, was available
> delivering core functionality like virtual NICs, bandwidth control for TCP, and
> stack instances for Zones.
> 
> 2. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-August/000231.html
> 
> Derek Cicero announced [3] the details of an OpenSolaris Tech day in Seattle on
> September 6th. Attendance is free for anyone interested. Derek also mentioned
> details of future days for Shanghai and Beijing.
> 
> 3. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-August/000230.html\
> 
> Stephen Lau noted [4] that there was now more space available on the download
> server, and announced that older builds had now been uploaded, thanking genunix
> for hosting them in the interim.
> 
> 4. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-August/000233.html
> 
> Nik Clayton reported [5] that DTrace had helped greatly in fixing a regression
> introduced in Sendmail a long time ago.
> 
> 5. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/dtrace-discuss/2006-August/002181.html
> 
> Phil Harman proposed [6] a new project for libmicro in order to have the source
> tree available under SCM for collaborative development. Spencer Shepler 
> proposed [7] a project for NFSv4.1 pNFS
> 
> 6. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-August/019693.html
> 7. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-August/019538.html
> 
> Derek Cicero noted [8] that Solaris Express Community Edition had now been
> expanded to 6 CDs, noting [9] that Staroffice and sfw binaries had pushed it to
> another CD.
> 
> 8. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-August/019573.html
> 9. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-August/019649.html
> 
> Bonnie Corwin provided [10] an update on the SCM situation, detailing that SVN
> was currently in an internal beta testing phase with JDS and companion CD being
> made available initially. There is an ON Mercurial mirror in testing at the
> moment, with a hope to make it available in early September for those people
> that want to try it out. Bonnie asked for knowledgeable people to volunteer to
> help when groups start moving their source code.
> 
> 10. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-August/000798.html
> 
> Alan Hargreaves noted [11] that the ON build 46 was broken due to the removal of
> Java 1.4, and that the workaround was to install the SUNWj3rt from a previous
> build.
> 
> 11. http://blogs.sun.com/tpenta/entry/building_build_46_on_build
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