OpenSolaris New User FAQ – Genunix Brian’s led an effort to produce a FAQ targetted at new users of OpenSolaris. Peruse, contribute, etc.

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Brian Marick – Writings Brian writes on a variety of software development topics. His paper, "How to misuse code coverage", provides a good explanation of what you do and don’t know after a code coverage assessment.

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I asked my teammates to take a brief break from prototyping, and we jumped from a collection of systems inside Sun to the clean project hosting at opensolaris.org. As the migration registers, you should be able to access the project web site at http://opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/, the Mercurial repository via $ hg clone ssh://anon@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/pkg/gate pkg-gate the same [...]

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Image Packaging System at OpenSolaris.org Project page and links to related resources for development.

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Predictable – pkg(1): project opens, development continues Join the development. Or just kibitz.

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What’s new in Solaris Install? : Sarah’s Excellent Adventures in Solaris Sarah has the latest screenshots from the Caiman installer project for OpenSolaris.

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The Engine Room – Rethinking Patching Bart on the complexity imposed by separating patching from packaging.

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Yahoo! UI Library: Rich Text Editor YUI delivers a JavaScript-based editor suitable for reuse.

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In my previous two posts, we examined two packaging system options—installer-specific knowledge and integrated build system—that I believe present costs that exceed their benefits. Here, we will again examine a design choice from a negative perspective: package-associated scripting. System V packaging is rich with scripting hooks; scripts named checkinstall, preinstall, postinstall, preremove, request, and the [...]

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Predictable – pkg(1): a no scripting zone In which we propose the elimination of open scripting hooks from packaging, and use branded zones to show that it indeed works.

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