Hi All,
On behalf of the Nexenta project, I’d like to announce the
availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta1, the sixth
release in the NCP3 cycle.
You can download the latest iso image from
http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable
The main changes over the Alpha5 release include:
* move from OpenSolaris b133 to b134
* nexenta-on-source changes
* Bug fix list: http://www.nexenta.org/versions/show/2
* COMSTAR Vtape package in [...] At the OpenSolaris Annual Meeting, held on IRC, Oracle executive Dan Roberts has assured the community about the future of the open source version of Solaris. The statements, available as a log of the meeting, have led Peter Tribble, who had expressed concerns on the lack of communication, to conclude “rumours of its [OpenSolaris] death [...] Hi All,
On behalf of the Nexenta project, I’d like to announce the
availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha5, the fifth
release in the NCP3 cycle.
You can download the latest iso image from
http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable
The main changes over the Alpha4 release include:
* move from Opensolaris b131 to b133
* nexenta-on-source changes
* Bug fix list: http://www.nexenta.org/versions/show/1
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COMSTAR Vtape driver
We’ve been working [...] Well, I figured that I should take an opportunity to introduce a few opensource OSs that really haven’t been in the lime light much. We all know about Linux and many of us also know about Darwin and BSD. Still some know about OpenSolaris. Which ever ones you know or don’t here’s a chance to [...] Hi All,
On behalf of the Nexenta project, I’d like to announce the
availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 alpha3 (and belatedly
wish you a great new year!). This is the third release in NCP3 cycle.
You can download the latest iso image from
http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable
The main changes over the Alpha2 release include:
* move from Opensolaris b129 to b130.
* Many [...] The new OpenSolaris website is now live: http://hub.opensolaris.org/. Incoming traffic to the old site is being redirected to the new site. The 1:1 redirects are still being worked, so we will send a separate announcement when they are in place.
Refer to the “POST-MIGRATION” section of the content preparations document for things [...] Hi All,
On behalf of the Nexenta project, I’d like to announce the
availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 alpha1. This is the
first release towards NCP3.0.
The main changes over NCP2 include:
Move from Opensolaris build 104 to 124.
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>From this release of NCP, all sunw* packages are natively built on
Nexenta. The complete sources are available in the repository, [...] “Sun Microsystems announced the Solaris 10 10/09 Operating System. The Solaris 10 OS has been extended with new performance and power efficiency enhancements, more streamlined management of system installations, updates and fixes, new updates for Solaris ZFS and advancements to further leverage the functionality of the latest SPARC and x86 based systems. Solaris 10 10/09 [...] While Sun Microsystems puts their weight behind the GNOME desktop environment for Solaris and OpenSolaris, there are developers that do work on providing a quality experience for KDE on OpenSolaris. However, getting KDE to run on a clean OpenSolaris installation can require building KDE from source and taking various other steps. Fortunately, for KDE fans, [...] Sun is announcing the intent to discontinue production of the Solaris Express
Community Edition (SXCE) by the end of October time-frame. As we intend to
continue on a bi-weekly build schedule, consolidations will move towards
producing native Image Packaging System (IPS) packages alongside SVR4
packages and then phase out the latter completely. Technologies such as
IPS, Automated Install, Snap Upgrade [...] The pkg(5) team is pleased to announce that a snapshot of the OpenSolaris 2009.06 /release package repository is now available in ISO image form.
The contents of the ISO images discussed below can be used to setup a local mirror of the OpenSolaris 2009.06 repository to accelerate zone creation, or for off-line [...] OpenSolaris 2009.06 Launch Seminar & CommunityOne West
Report will be held on June, 19th in Tokyo.
Regards,
Shoji
-=-=-=- Announcement: 2009-06-19 OpenSolaris 2009.06 Launch Seminar -=-=-=-=-
Date: June 19th
Place: Sun’s Jingumae office in Tokyo.
Cost: Free
18:00 – 18:30 Doors open & Drinks
18:30 – 18:35 Introduction : Akira Ohsone
18:35 – 19:20 OpenSolaris 2009.06 : Shunsuke Kuroda
19:20 – 19:30 OpenSolaris [...] Sun Microsystems has boosted networking and performance in the latest version of OpenSolaris, by including Project Crossbow from the Solaris operating system.
The changes to network and storage performance make the operating system much faster than Linux, according to Sun.
Project Crossbow is Sun’s network architecture for virtualisation. The company claims that Crossbow can be used to [...] Today marks the release of OpenSolaris 2009.06, the third release of the OpenSolaris Operating System.
We’ve shifted gear, bringing you a new set of features right to your door, from the desktop to the data center. For a complete list of what’s new with this release, check out the OpenSolaris 2009.06 What’s New Guide
http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/features/whats-new/200906
OpenSolaris for SPARC [...] Hi,
The Nexenta team would like to announce the immediate availability of
the Nexenta Core Platform 2 release.
Go on to http://www.nexenta.org, and let Nexentaman walk you through
what Nexenta provides.
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Release Highlights:
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* OpenSolaris build 104+ based with critical patches.
* Over 13000 packages in the repository, thanks to the autobuilder.
* Smooth upgrade path from NCP1.
* Community driven efforts bringing xorg, [...] Hi All,
This is to announce availability of NexentaCore Platform 2.0 RC3.
The changes since RC2 include:
- Man-db fix
- Opensolaris kernel fixes
Release Highlights:
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* OpenSolaris build 104+ based with critical patches.
* Over 13000 packages in the repository, thanks to the autobuilder.
* Smooth upgrade path from NCP1.
* Community driver efforts bringing xorg, xfce4 and gnome-core into
the repository
* Based on [...] While OpenSolaris 2008.11 has been available for download for over a week now, Sun Microsystems hasn’t officially announced its existence. Sun though will be announcing it this morning at what will be a 9AM PST web-launch…
Read more at Phoronix The OpenSolaris development package repository
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/
has been updated to reflect the changes in snv_101b including major
fixes to the Caiman “Slim Install” and the Image Packaging System
(IPS). This build is the second release candidate build for the
OpenSolaris 2008.11 release. For this build, the recommended minimum
memory size is 512MB or greater.
Users who wish to update their [...] For those interested in helping out Sun Microsystems with testing out the near-final build of OpenSolaris 2008.11, its release candidate is now available. This build is based upon Build 101a of the open-source OpenSolaris code-base…
Read more at Phoronix OpenSolaris 2008.05 had given a new face to Solaris through a vastly improved desktop experience. While OpenSolaris 2008.05 was not perfect, it was quite pleasant and a very nice first step. Sun Microsystems is now preparing for the release of OpenSolaris 2008.11 to incorporate their latest set of changes. In this article we are looking [...] | 