As I did for Preview 1, I’ll collect links to mirror sites here, as well as on the project page. So we just released the second Indiana preview ISO, which you can get from the following locations: via HTTP from dlc.sun.com, and via HTTP from genunix.org, via FTP from ftp.df.lth.se, or via HTTP from osol.acm.jhu.edu. [...]
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So there are a few ways to get a copy of the Indiana preview ISO: via HTTP from dlc.sun.com, via HTTP from genunix.org, via HTTP from osol.acm.jhu.edu, via FTP from ftp.df.lth.se, or via BitTorrent. Both our mirrors are in Northern California, so—since it’s a completely redistributable set of software—if you’re interested in being a mirror [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been busy the past weeks with school transitions and with getting the community defect tracking system requirements into a shape where we can start evaluating candidates. Identifying the boundaries of a system during the design phase affects feasibility critically, perhaps more than any other choice. This choice reduces to “know what you’re trying to [...]
I thought I would continue probing some of the problems that present themselves to any packaging system that might follow the System V packaging. For the next few topics, I’ll phrase the problem in terms of an outcome I believe we want to avoid. Here we discuss aspects of eliminating special metadata from installers. If [...]
Over the past few months, a bunch of us have been exploring various options for packaging. (Actually, I suppose I’ve been pursuing this on a part-time basis for a year now, but it’s only recently that it’s made it to the top of the stack.) I’ve looked at a bunch of packaging systems, ported a [...]
It’s been almost two-and-a-half years since Solaris 10 was released, and if we look at Nevada (via Developer Edition or one of the other distributions), we can see that many of the technologies introduced in S10 are becoming still more capable. At this point, even the most conservative software developer can assume that certain features [...]
Last night, I finished up another task, in an attempt to reduce my current multitasking factor: I integrated initial versions of coreutils and which from the GNU Project into the Freeware consolidation. As a lower priority task, it took longer than a more dedicated developer might have managed, but it’s reasonably pleasing to look back: [...]
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James Dickens spied a new BluePrint on the planned redeployment of store.sun.com [PDF] to SunFire T2000 systems running Solaris 10. Beyond the tremendous reduction in occupied space and the around 90 percent estimated reduction in input power and output heat, the document describes the use of Solaris Containers to consolidate the middle tier servers, complete [...]
One of the questions raised at Tuesday night’s BoF was “why are some of the statistics that iostat -E displays result in a console message and some do not?” I was sitting in the back with a copy of Mike Kupfer’s split ON source tree, and decided to have a look. iostat(1M) is a kstat [...]
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