For years, I worked on an interactive language used by scientists to do data analysis and visualization. That program makes heavy use of sharable libraries....
For years, I worked on an interactive language used by scientists to do data analysis and visualization. That program makes heavy use of sharable libraries. Solaris was my primary development platform, due to its superior facilities for observing and debugging software, so my usual strategy was to write and debug my code under Solaris, and then move the results to the many other Unix (and VMS, Windows, and Macintosh) platforms that we supported. I became very familiar with...
For years, I worked on an interactive language used by scientists to do data analysis and visualization. That program makes heavy use of sharable libraries. Solaris was my primary development...
OpenSolaris is 1 year old today! Congratulations, and thanks to everyone that made it possible! I've used SunOS/Solaris for ~20 years now, for all of the old...
OpenSolaris is 1 year old today! Congratulations, and thanks to everyone that made it possible! I've used SunOS/Solaris for ~20 years now, for all of the old school reasons: Solaris has long set the gold standard for things like reliability, scalability, observability, debuggability backward compatibility, and standards compliance. Over those years, I've written code that had to run on most versions of Unix as well as VMS, Windows, and the Macintosh. Sun was always the place...
OpenSolaris is 1 year old today! Congratulations, and thanks to everyone that made it possible! I've used SunOS/Solaris for ~20 years now, for all of the old school reasons: Solaris has long set the...
At some point over the past few years, I somehow went from just checking in the new login and splash images for CDE in each Solaris release to becoming the...
At some point over the past few years, I somehow went from just checking in the new login and splash images for CDE in each Solaris release to becoming the unofficial dtlogin “special ops” person - handling the overhauls of the dtlogin appearance for the Solaris 10 beta, 3/05, 1/06, and now 6/06 releases and a few other side tasks that the main CDE sustaining team didn't have the resources to handle. The latest of these is shipping in Solaris Nevada starting in build 39, and...
At some point over the past few years, I somehow went from just checking in the new login and splash images for CDE in each Solaris release to becoming the unofficial dtlogin “special ops” person...
I realized today when preparing the build 42 source drop that I had not yet posted the bug list from build 41 here - though it's been up on the ChangeLog page...
I realized today when preparing the build 42 source drop that I had not yet posted the bug list from build 41 here - though it's been up on the ChangeLog page for two weeks, and the source was posted as Source Drop 20060516 at the same time. 6424349 prepare xscreensaver sources for OpenSolaris release Sources for our highly-modified fork of xscreensaver 4.05 are now included in the main tarball. As an added bonus, the build 41 source drop included a separate tarball featuring...
I realized today when preparing the build 42 source drop that I had not yet posted the bug list from build 41 here - though it's been up on the ChangeLog page for two weeks, and the source was...
I'm very pleased to announce that the OpenSolaris security community was choosen by Google to have a student for the Google Summer of Code 2006.Johannes...
I'm very pleased to announce that the OpenSolaris security community was choosen by Google to have a student for the Google Summer of Code 2006.Johannes Nicolai, will be working on exapanding the "basic" privilege set in OpenSolaris. This will allow us to do express policies such as "this application can never access the network".I am Johannes official mentor but for this to benefit Johannes and OpenSolaris most we need to welcome him in to the Opensolaris security community...
I'm very pleased to announce that the OpenSolaris security community was choosen by Google to have a student for the Google Summer of Code 2006.Johannes Nicolai, will be working on exapanding the...
I've just added a new section to the OpenSolaris Cryptographic Framework pages that shows the status of drivers.This was done at the request of the OpenSolaris...
I've just added a new section to the OpenSolaris Cryptographic Framework pages that shows the status of drivers.This was done at the request of the OpenSolaris Appliances Community.
For build 40, I got the opensolaris.org source drop posted already, so if you want to follow along in the sources, I'll point out which files you can look in to...
For build 40, I got the opensolaris.org source drop posted already, so if you want to follow along in the sources, I'll point out which files you can look in to see these changes, for those in the portions included in our open source releases so far. 6414453 ogl-select fails to start A simple shell script quoting error - while not in the source drops, since this is a shell script, you can see the changes in /lib/svc/method/ogl-select in the installed files. 6388471 [Xorg bug...
For build 40, I got the opensolaris.org source drop posted already, so if you want to follow along in the sources, I'll point out which files you can look in to see these changes, for those in...
I sent a note to our internal lists today and already got a half dozen "I thought it was just my system..." responses, so for other people suffering in silence,...
I sent a note to our internal lists today and already got a half dozen "I thought it was just my system..." responses, so for other people suffering in silence, and not recognizing this, I'll post it here too: There's a bug in Xorg 6.9 (included in Nevada builds 28 & later, S10U2, and S10 patches) in which if you scroll the wheel too fast on your wheel mouse, you get left/right wheel events instead of up/down, which is particularly annoying in Firefox, which interprets...
I sent a note to our internal lists today and already got a half dozen "I thought it was just my system..." responses, so for other people suffering in silence, and not recognizing this, I'll post...
The ChangeLog for the X Consolidation for Solaris Build 39 has now been posted. However, the source drop won't be available to next week due to some lab work...
The ChangeLog for the X Consolidation for Solaris Build 39 has now been posted. However, the source drop won't be available to next week due to some lab work that made our file server and build machines unavailable today, (and since I had to work on that, I couldn't prepare the source drop on other machines either). For OpenSolaris source release, the most notable change in this build is that it contains the first replacement of existing Solaris X sources (from our...
The ChangeLog for the X Consolidation for Solaris Build 39 has now been posted. However, the source drop won't be available to next week due to some lab work that made our file server and...
