I recently borrowed one of the 10″ netbooks that came out this year, and tested Build 123 on it. Here’s a shot of Toshiba’s sleek black NB205 displaying a clean Device Driver Utility run. The NB205 has a keyboard on par with the r500 I use regularly—large for a netbook—and has a superior trackpad. Suspend-resume [...]
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With the launch over, I took a few minutes to read through today’s blog entries, and pulled out a list of the either technical or personally significant entries. If you’re looking for the highlights, Calum’s overview seems to be a great place to start. He’s got links to the best summaries and screencasts. First, if [...]
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As you update your pkg(5)-based system to build 100a, you might see a message on console during startup. It will look something like WARNING: pool ‘zeta1′ could not be loaded as it was last accessed by another system (host: rosseau hostid: 0x581d45e). See: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-EY and in /var/adm/messages, you’ll find it again: Oct 27 14:55:21 rosseau [...]
It’s been a busy summer, mostly trying to manage conflicting schedules at home while staying loyal to the six month release schedule for OpenSolaris at work. Schedules everywhere, it seems. I’ve been probing deeper into the ecosystem around Python, and have been trying to determine whether restructured text might have some value in the workflow [...]
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It looks like I missed making a configuration change last update, and opensolaris.org has been dropping my mail messages for the past week as a result. Sorry—if you’re waiting for mail from me, you may need to ping me again. Otherwise, I’ll try to reinsert myself in various threads…
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Sunday I spent at Moscone, teaching laptops and projectors to get along. Saturday, Nathaniel, Benjamin, and I dropped in for lunch at the Developer Summit. I managed to talk with a few people before the boys found large whacking sticks, and then it seemed best to drive to Pescadero for some beach time. I’ll be [...]
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Right now, if you’re subscribed to any of the Installation and Packaging community group or project lists, you’ll see a lot of commit notifications as the various teams attempt to fix various bugs noted since the second Developer Preview release. We’ve been using the trial Bugzilla instance—which is becoming the default defect tracker for opensolaris.org [...]
A relatively new forum on opensolaris.org is opensolaris-jobs, a community-moderated list where OpenSolaris-related positions can be posted and which should give access to the people most passionate, most expert, and most interested in making OpenSolaris work their job. In the past few weeks, there’s been two postings you might find interesting: Networking summer interns, Sun [...]
Over the past week, as we kept reassembling the distro constructor, image packaging, and slim install, we tested installs on a bunch of laptops. This manual operation let me rehearse how to get things working if the Preview LiveCD doesn’t have a graphics driver that will work. So: here’s the VESA workaround. Boot text mode. [...]
Danek and I are at the 2007 OpenSolaris Developer Summit at UC Santa Cruz, talking about and, I hope, later demonstrating the image packaging prototype so far. I gave a brief overview of the project’s goals and status, and mentioning some of the unmentionables we’ve encountered—some particularly undisciplined configuration files, some apparently important but encumbered [...]
