I seeded the 2008.05 release candidate for about 45 hours, ultimately shipping a little over 4100 megabytes. I’m going to take a break, because I want to update my DP2-based workstation and get some work done, but, once we have new bits, I’ll getting seeding again. (I found the actual result: 4237MiB sent up, so [...]

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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 [...]

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It Must Be Time for Tea: Converting Projects to Mercurial Mike talks about helping projects move from TeamWare to Mercurial. Large projects may have been running a project gate ("branch") for a year or more, and with a clear schedule in mind. Minimizing the cost of the main gate switching source code managemen

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Intel® Software Network Blogs » Making access to memory faster in OpenSolaris (and Core2) Dave reports on performance improvements in OpenSolaris for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() on Core2-based systems.

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The View from the Moon: Finding bugs in python code, using DTrace We've been using DTrace to check performance as we develop image packaging; here Dan reviews one of his recent wins. Because DTrace makes it extremely cheap to check for algorithmic mistakes, and the yields of correcting such mistakes are so high, it's c

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