OpenSolaris
This morning, at the 8AM (Pacific) OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) meeting, the following was proposed and unanimously resolved: The OGB is keen to promote the uptake and open development of OpenSolaris and to work on behalf of the community with Oracle, as such the OGB needs Oracle to appoint a liaison by August 16, 2010, who has the the authority to talk about the future of OpenSolaris and its interaction with the OpenSolaris community ...
If you didn't see it earlier this week in Robert Milkowski's blog, Oracle has provided an updated roadmap. Simply it states the following: Oracle will continue to make OpenSolaris available as open source and Oracle will continue to actively support and participate in the OpenSolaris community Oracle is investing more in Solaris than Sun did prior to the acquisition, and will continue to contribute innovative technologies to ...
I have tried so hard to be positive and encourage people... but I must bring sad news. The first of all OpenSolaris User Groups, the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris Users Group, may be ending, as we know it, at its final meeting in a Sun campus this Thursday, May 27th. According to SVOSUG leader, the lovely Alta Elstad, Oracle policy does not permit user groups to be run by Oracle employees or to meet on Oracle properties. Therefore, this ...
I've discussed this many times before, but the reality still alludes many in our community. Therefore let me speak plainly such that you may understand. OpenSolaris is not an open source project in the traditional sense. It can not and should not be thought of as such. If you attempt to do so you will only be frustrated and confused. We have today seen yet another example of such a misunderstanding, when a community member wished ...
So IPS is here to stay, most likely, and you no doubt want to get a feel for things. So lets quickly create our first repository and package. Hold on just one second! Lets get this clear first, IPS is all about network package repositories. There is no "local package" file format. Therefore, its a little confusing to say "create a package". So lets be crystal clear: we are going to send a bunch of files and meta-data as a package ...
For those of you who may be unclear on what BFU is, it has become short for Blazing Fast Upgrades. The Solaris ("Nevada OS/Network Consolidation", to be specific) source traditionally had the ability to output BFU images, which are really just cpio archives that can be overlaid on an installed system. The idea was to allow developers to quickly and painlessly (as possible) update to the new builds without the usual patch hassles or doing a ...
If you've seen one of my talks on ZFS Tuning you've witnessed my love for the fsinfo provider (and the fsstat command as well) first hand. This amazing but poorly documented provider can give you some great high level insight into your I/O pattern. If you've ever used truss just to watch iops, then give this a whirl instead. There are probes for each VFS operation: ID PROVIDER MODULE ...
The results are in. We have a new OGB and a new Constitution. Your board shall be: Dennis Clarke Moinak Ghosh Teresa Giacomini Simon Phipps John Plocher Joerg Schilling Peter Tribble This is the most radical election to date. Only one of the members is a current Sun/Oracle employee (the lovely Teresa Giacomini). Moinak Ghosh of Belenix fame represents divergant distros and is ex-Sun. John & Simon are ex-Sun. ...
It's that time, make sure you don't forget to Vote in the OpenSolaris annual elections. You'll notice that I'm not going to comment on the issue of the constitution this year, but I do ask for you to consider Octave Orgeron, Joerg Schilling, Peter Tribble, Moinak Ghosh, and all the community guys for OGB. There is a great list of folks on the ballot, including also John Plocher and Dennis Clarke who are fantastic enthusiastic folks.
Its that time of year again for OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Elections. This is the time of year that we clean up contributor grants within our meritocracy and generally clean house. The Annual Report was due Feb 4th but is still in the works. Nominations for OGB will open on Feb 15th and close on Mar 1st. If you are seeking a core contributor grant (and the voting rights that come with it) you need to get that approved by Feb ...