OpenSolaris Announcements

OpenSolaris Starter Kit

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:40:20 -0800

Global distribution of the new OpenSolaris Starter Kit is now live at http://get.opensolaris.org/. There is also a link at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/. The kit contains tutorials, docs, community distributions, source code, and tools all delivered on two DVDs for free.

OpenSolaris Elections

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:40:20 -0800

Announcement Post: OGB March 2007 Election

Election Schedule

Candidate Status

Japan OpenSolaris Portal Opens

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:39:13 -0800

The Japanese OpenSolaris community opened their portal today: http://jp.opensolaris.org/

This represents the first country portal on opensolaris.org. The project is just beginning, though, so if you'd like to participate in the development of the Japan OpenSolaris portal, sign up on the discussions page here http://jp.opensolaris.org/forums/. The announcement from Sun Japan is here http://jp.sun.com/company/Press/release/2007/0222.html.

The Japan portal is part of the OpenSolaris country portal project, which is an effort to translate the content on opensolaris.org into as many languages as possible: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/portals/. It's a community effort, so you are more than welcome to get involved: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/portals/discussions/.

Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris | http://opensolaris.org/os/

SXCR Build 53 available

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:40:09 -0800

Sorry for the long delay.

Please find the links to SXCR Build 53 at

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/.

- Derek

ON b54 available

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:40:09 -0800

http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b54

OpenSolaris Weekly News #41

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:40:09 -0800

"Sigh. If Danek only weren't the GK, it'd be easy to ignore his arguments. ;-)"
- Steve Lau, on source tree layout of developer and gatekeeper tools for ON

Darren Moffat announced [1] the creation of the Bluetooth stack and drivers project, inviting anyone interested to join in and help. Brad Diggs announced [2] the creation of the Zone manager project, with a goal of simplifying the command line utilities for the creation and management of zones. Young Joo Pintaske announced [3] the creation of a multi-lingual glossary project, while Artem Kachitchkine announced [4] that the WWAN (Wireless Wide Area Network) project had gone live.

1. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-December/000343.html
2. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-December/000344.html
3. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-December/000346.html
4. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-December/000347.html

Steve Lau announced [5] that build 54 of ON was now available. Derek Cicero announced that build 53 of SXCR was now available.

5. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-December/000348.html
6. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-December/000349.html

OpenSolaris Weekly News #40

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:40:09 -0800

"putback by 'robin' on December 1st 2006: 6497364 update zoneinfo timezones to 2006p – (Western Australia DST 12/3/2006)"
- OpenSolaris in time for change to Daylight Savings in Western Australia

Steve Lau announced [1] that Planet OpenSolaris had moved to the opensolaris.org domain.

1. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-November/000333.html

Erast Benson announced [2] that the ON 53 was now available for NexentaOS, including the recent HAL/Tamarack volume management infrastructure.

2. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-November/000335.html

Stephen Harpster announced [3] that there would be a restriction on putbacks for builds 54 and 55, due to an ongoing crisis with bug counts. He expected that build 56 would be the next opportunity to get new features in.

3. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-November/000336.html

Michelle Olson announced [4] the November update for the docs consolidation, including updates to the Solaris installation guide, and system administration guide for security services.

4. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-November/000337.html

Linda Bernal announced [5] a new release of bugs.opensolaris.org, mentioning that in future any work would focus on providing an RSS feature, better search facilities, and providing 'commit to fix' and 'introduced in' fields. Stephen Hahn followed up [6] about the issues currently being faced with providing key functionality so to improve the experiences for external developers.

5. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/2006-November/001111.html
6. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/2006-November/001117.html

Darren Moffat proposed [7] a new project for cryptographic framework, moving away from the existing pages on the security community to the new project framework on opensolaris.org. Frank Hoffman proposed [8] a project for PCFS filesystem drivers, also moving towards using an open public Mercurial repository for development.

7. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-November/022165.html
8. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-November/022201.html

Linda Bernal posted [9] the November edition of the OpenSolaris community newsletter.

9. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-November/021411.html

Glenn Lagasse posted [10] an update on the scheduled delivery of the rest of the install consolidation sources. Unfortunately, due to resources, the schedule has pushed out, with a new date of April 2007. Glenn also posted [11] details of the source update for build 54, including a flag day for a build dependency on libspmizones library on Nevada build 53 or higher.

10. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/2006-November/001270.html
11. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/2006-December/001301.html

Man Page Consolidation Joins OpenSolaris

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:40:09 -0800

The source files for 356 man pages are available.

Thanks to Doug Stevenson for making the source available and to Stuart McIntyre and Dennis Evans for gatekeeping and tools development.

The source is provided in nroff.

Go to http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/manpages/ to download.

Send comments, suggestions, and questions to docs-discuss at opensolaris dot org or visit the Documentation Community at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation.

Regards,
Michelle

FROSUG: December Meeting Announcement (12/14/2006)

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:40:09 -0800

The next FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting will be on Thursday, December 14, 2006. This will be a social meeting, held at the Splitz bowling center in Westminster, at 104th and 36, near the Promenade movie theaters. Each person will pay for their own shoe rental and food, and their share of the bowling.

Meeting Details:

When: Thursday, December 14, 2006 Time: 6:00pm – ? Where: Splitz Bowling Center, 10685 Westminster Blvd., Westminster, CO 80020 Estimated costs: Bowling: about $6.00, Shoe rental: 4.50, Pizza and soft drinks: 5.00

No RSVP needed — let's meet at the front desk and go from there.

We hope to see you there!
Thanks,
FROSUG

The CrossBow Beta Candidate Release Is Ready

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:40:09 -0800

The Network Virtualization and Resource Management project (code name CrossBow) team is happy to announce the availability of the Beta Candidate Release on OpenSolaris.org

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/pre-beta/

We are delivering

SPARC and x86 binaries,
Full source code
Draft man pages.

Many new and enhanced features have been added in this release, please see the What's New section for more details.

For questions or comments please send email to crossbow-discuss AT opensolaris.org

Regards,

Announcing Multi-lingual glossary project

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:17:47 -0800

Hi!

I would like to announce the multi-lingual technology glossary project:

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/glossary/

Initial proposal and discussion are found here:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18417&tstart=150

We will be using the I18n Community communication channels to discuss the details:

i18n-discuss at opensolaris dot org
IRC on #opensolaris-i18n at irc.freenode.net

Please join us, and help us develop excellent reference material for OpenSolaris!

Regards,
Young

Links to rollup reports

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:17:47 -0800

Here are links to the latest batch of overview reports (rollups).

You can also receive them by subscribing to the RSS feed:

http://del.icio.us/rss/bootblog/oss:rollups

or bookmarking the URL:

http://del.icio.us/bootblog/oss:rollups

zfs-discuss 11/16 – 11/30

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2006-December/007010.html

website-discuss 11/16 – 11/30

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/2006-December/001162.html

tools-discuss 11/16 – 11/30

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-December/001427.html

storage-discuss 11/16 – 11/30

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/storage-discuss/2006-December/000589.html

security-discuss 11/16 – 11/30

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/security-discuss/2006-December/000788.html

opensolaris-discuss 11/16 – 11/30

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-December/022498.html

opensolaris-code 11/16 – 11/30

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-code/2006-December/001752.html

nwam-discuss 11/16 – 11/30

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/nwam-discuss/2006-December/001051.html

networking-discuss 11/16 – 11/30

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/networking-discuss/2006-December/002826.html

ksh93-integration-discuss 11/16 – 11/30

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2006-December/001964.html

install-discuss 11/16 – 11/30

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/2006-December/001324.html

i18n-discuss 11/16 – 11/30

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/i18n-discuss/2006-December/000726.html

dtrace-discuss 11/16 – 11/30

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/dtrace-discuss/2006-December/002949.html

crossbow-discuss 11/16 – 11/30

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/crossbow-discuss/2006-December/000294.html

WWAN project goes live

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:17:47 -0800

The Wireless Wide Area Network project is now live at:

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/wwan/

I uploaded pre-release packages of the driver that can be used with EV-DO cards such as Novatel V620. The project page contains installation, configuration and troubleshooting information.

You are welcome to join wwan-discuss AT opensolaris DOT org

-Artem.

ON nightly 20061204

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:10:36 -0800

http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current

New Project: The Zone Manager

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:10:36 -0800

Hello all,

There is a new OpenSolaris project for your enjoyment and contribution called the Zone Manager.

The purpose of this project is to simplify Solaris zones creation and management down to a single non-interactive command line tool. The Zone Manager (zonemgr) should enable administrators to do 90% of zone creation and management. Note however, that this project is in NO WAY intended to replace the existing zonecfg/zoneadm commands but rather to supplement them.

To get a since of how this can make your zones life easier, consider the following four examples:

Example #1
The following command will create a non-global and non-networked sparse zone named m1.

# zonemgr -a add -n m1 -z "/zones" -P "abc123"

Example #2
The following command will perform the details stated below.

# zonemgr -a add -n m2 -t w -z "/zones" \
-P "abc123" -R /root \
-I "192.168.0.10|hme0|24|m2host" \
-r "/ds/bits|/bits" \
-w "/data/ds/m2|/ds/m2" \
-s lock -S ssh \
-C /etc/ssh/sshd_config -C /etc/resolv.conf \
-C /etc/nsswitch.conf

1. Create a whole root zone named m2 in /zones/m2.
2. Set the root password of that zone to abc123.
3. Set the home directory of the root user of the non-global zone to /root.
4. Set the IP address of the zone to 192.168.0.10, the netmask to 255.255.255.0, assign it to interface hme0, and assign it a host name of m2host.
5. Read only mount /ds/bits from the global zone to /bits in the non-global zone.
6. Read write mount /data/ds from the global zone to /ds in the non-global zone.
7. Disable all un-necessary services in the non-global zone.
8. Copy the /etc/ssh/sshd_config, /etc/resolv.conf, and /etc/nsswitch.conf files from the global zone to the non-global zone.
9. Restart the ssh service.

Example #3
The following command will add a zone named m1, download and install mysql5 and all requisite bits from Blastwave.org, and install all those bits in the proper order in the m1 zone.

# zonemgr -a add -n m1 -z "/zones" -P "abc123" \
-I "192.168.0.10|hme0|24|m1" -G "mysql5"

Example #4
The following command will halt all non-global zones but those specified by the -n parameter and will boot any of the specified zones that are not currently running.

# zonemgr -a only -n "m1 m2"

There is much more that you can do with the Zone Manager.

See the documentation for more examples.

Version 1.7 is available for download now. And hopefully version 1.8 will be out soon.

Please come an join us at: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/zonemgr/ and on the zones-discuss mail alias on opensolaris.org.

Brad

Project Open: Bluetooth Stack & Drivers

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:10:36 -0800

The initial goal of the project is to get a protocol stack for Bluetooth ready for integration into the ON consolidation. Initially this will include a driver for Bluetooth mouse. After that additional drivers such as keyboard, audio, modem etc will be added either as part of this project or follow-on ones.

One of the first tasks of the project is to determine if there is a usable stack available under a suitable license for inclusion in the OpenSolaris kernel. If there is we will investigate porting that.

We are going to start out using the drivers-discuss mailing list on opensolaris.org until such time as we determine that separate bluetooth alias is required.

Please come an join us at:

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/bluetooth/

and on the drivers-discuss mail alias on opensolaris.org.

Darren J Moffat

onnv-gate Hg build bundles back online

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:47:30 -0800

I've regenerated the onnv-gate Mercurial build bundles at: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/hg-build-snapshots/

It's been rebased off the new repository, and the new repository has the proper onnv_# tags, so you should be able to follow the instructions a the above URL to generate a proper build-synchronised source base.

cheers,
steve

ROSUG: November Meeting Announcement (11/28/2006)

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:47:30 -0800

Hi,

The next FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on Tuesday, November 28, 2006. Our presenters are Susan Kamm-Worrell and Tony Nguyen. They will be talking about the Solaris Service Management Facility (SMF).

In addition to the SMF presentation, Jon Bowman will be giving the "OpenSolaris Update" – a short presentation about the latest happenings in OpenSolaris. This is similar the presentation given at the beginning of last month's meeting and is used to help people stay up to date on what is happening in the OpenSolaris community.

About the presentation – "Solaris Service Management Facility (SMF): Service Management Simplified":

SMF is a new feature of the Solaris Operating System that creates a supported, unified model for services and service management on each Solaris system. It is a core part of the Predictive Self-Healing technology available in Solaris 10, which provides automatic recovery from software and hardware failures as well as administrative errors.

This presentation will discuss, in detail, the motivation for SMF and how to manage your new Solaris environment with SMF.

About our presenters: Susan Kamm-Worrell holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois and has been in the UNIX industry for 18 years. Susan has been with Sun since 1999 and has recently joined the SMF development team.

Tony Nguyen holds a B.S in Computer Science from University of Colorado at Denver and is working on M.S in Computational Biology. Tony recently joined the SMF development team and prior to that was a part of the Solaris Volume Manager team for two years.

Meeting Details:

Topic: "Solaris Service Management Facility (SMF) – Service Management Simplified"
Presenters: Susan Kamm-Worrell and Tony Nguyen
When: Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Time: 6:15pm – 6:30pm (Pizza) / 6:30pm – 8:30pm (Presentation)
Where: Sun Broomfield Campus
Building 1 – Conference Center
500 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO 80021

Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the beginning of the meeting. Please RSVP to frosug-rsvp(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org in order to help us plan for food!

We hope to see you there!
Thanks,
FROSUG

Links to rollup reports

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:47:29 -0800

Below are links to the latest batch of overview reports (rollups).

You can also receive them by subscribing to the RSS feed:

http://del.icio.us/rss/bootblog/oss:rollups

or bookmarking the URL:

http://del.icio.us/bootblog/oss:rollups

opensolaris-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-November/021808.html

zones-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zones-discuss/2006-November/001433.html

zfs-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2006-November/006662.html

tools-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-November/001224.html

storage-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/storage-discuss/2006-November/000536.html

security-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/security-discuss/2006-November/000730.html

opensolaris-code 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-code/2006-November/001685.html

networking-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/networking-discuss/2006-November/002740.html

ksh93-integration-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2006-November/001865.html

install-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/2006-November/001236.html

i18n-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/i18n-discuss/2006-November/000675.html

dtrace-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/dtrace-discuss/2006-November/002820.html

docs-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/2006-November/000649.html

crossbow-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/crossbow-discuss/2006-November/000283.html

clearview-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/clearview-discuss/2006-November/000395.html

onnv-gate Mercurial repository

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:47:29 -0800

The onnv-gate Mercurial repository is back up and open for anonymous pulls:

ssh://anon@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/onnv/onnv-gate

Please note, it has been COMPLETELY regenerated. Much badness will ensue if you try to pull this down on top of your already existing repository. Please see the tools-discuss archives if you have local changes and want to preserve those or carry them forward into a new repository.

cheers,
steve

OpenSolaris Weekly News #38

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:47:29 -0800

"We'd go check the IAM file for the case to see who owned it, and ping them…..Of course, there's still no way to force them to respond even once you've sent them personal email, but one would hope they'd get the message (so to speak)."

- Danek Duvall, talking about how people might find out about status of ARC cases in OpenSolaris

Glynn Foster announed [1] that Planet OpenSolaris, an aggregator of OpenSolaris based feeds, was now live [2]. Glynn emphasized that although the list of blogs would expand in the future, he hoped to keep it relevant and readable with the people actively participating and contributing directly to the project.

1. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-November/000319.html
2. http://grommit.com/pos

Stephen Lau announced [3] that ON build 52 was now available. Added to this, Stephen announced [4] that the anonymous onnv-gate Hg repository was back up and running, along with regenerated onnv-gate Hg build bundles [5].

3. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-November/000321.html
4. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-November/000323.html
5. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-November/000326.html

Michelle Olson posted [6] more details about the man pages roadmap, and specific dates for release.

6. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/2006-November/000648.html

Sarah Jelinek proposed [7] project Caiman, the code name for the project to create a new Solaris installation experience. Sarah also posted [8] to say that the FUSE sources were now available, with 2 separate repositories available for the kernel driver and the libfuse library.

7. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-November/021720.html
8. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/fuse-discuss/2006-November/000028.html

Neale Ferguson mailed [9] with a status update of where he's at with the System Z of OpenSolaris.

9. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-code/2006-November/001654.html

Dan Groves mailed [10] a pointer to the document detailing link management as part of the network interfaces vanity naming concept [11], in the Clearview project.

10. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/clearview-discuss/2006-November/000388.html
11. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/clearview/uv/

Erik Nordmark posted [12] code review for the IP instances project, as part of ongoing work in the Crossbow project [13].

12. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/crossbow-discuss/2006-November/000277.html
13. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/

Alexander Kolbasov posted [14] details of DTrace hooks for the CPU caps project [15], introducing kernel wait queues where threads may be placed to enforce caps. This proposal introduces 2 probes, cpucaps-sleep and cpucaps-wakeup, underneath the sched provider.

14. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/dtrace-discuss/2006-November/002810.html
15. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/rm/rctls/cpu-caps/