Mercurial is the distributed source code managment system that has been choosen for OpenSolaris. For the ON consolidation (the one I work in most of the time)...
Mercurial is the distributed source code managment system that has been choosen for OpenSolaris. For the ON consolidation (the one I work in most of the time) this means it is replacing Sun's Teamware which was last shipped with Sun Studio 6 and is EOL. Even though it is officially EOL the ON consolidation (and several others) have continued to use it, with a number of home grown add on packages. One of those addons is a tool called webrev'.The webrev tool is used for...
Mercurial is the distributed source code managment system that has been choosen for OpenSolaris. For the ON consolidation (the one I work in most of the time) this means it is replacing Sun's...
Some of the more observant people may have noticed that in the Extra_Value directory of the snv_42 Solaris Express builds the additional packages that make up...
Some of the more observant people may have noticed that in the Extra_Value directory of the snv_42 Solaris Express builds the additional packages that make up Trusted Exentions are available. More on what that really is and what you can do with it in a future blog entry.The documentation indicates that you should use ste-discuss@opensolaris.org as the mail alias to ask questions on. That alias doesn't exist instead please use the general OpenSolaris security discuss alias...
Some of the more observant people may have noticed that in the Extra_Value directory of the snv_42 Solaris Express builds the additional packages that make up Trusted Exentions are available. More on...
Build 42 sources were posted last week in Source Drop 20060530, so it's time once again for the brief summary of what's changed. 6314490 X app dumps core with...
Build 42 sources were posted last week in Source Drop 20060530, so it's time once again for the brief summary of what's changed. 6314490 X app dumps core with LC_ALL != C when XtOpenDisplay() is called twice The bug report provides a pretty complete description - the fix from our i18n team updated the way we close dlopen()'ed locale modules in XCloseDisplay(). Our libX11 locale module handling is quite a bit different than the X.Org versions - hopefully we'll have the sources...
Build 42 sources were posted last week in Source Drop 20060530, so it's time once again for the brief summary of what's changed. 6314490 X app dumps core with LC_ALL != C when XtOpenDisplay()...
Gaim, the popular multi protocol instant messaging client, has a mode of operation where it will store the users password in the clear text.This page attempts...
Gaim, the popular multi protocol instant messaging client, has a mode of operation where it will store the users password in the clear text.This page attempts to justify this behaviour. I certainly agree that obscuring it without using real crypto is a bad idea and would never support that.My gripe with the justification is that it misses a very important, to me and many of my friends and coworkers, use case. That is where GAIM is being used in a corporate deployment as the...
Gaim, the popular multi protocol instant messaging client, has a mode of operation where it will store the users password in the clear text.This page attempts to justify this behaviour. I certainly...
One year ago today, I wrote about how X fit into the OpenSolaris plans and why the portions released then were just the first of the Solaris consolidations to...
One year ago today, I wrote about how X fit into the OpenSolaris plans and why the portions released then were just the first of the Solaris consolidations to be released. Since then, OpenSolaris has expanded from just the core OS/Networking (ON) consolidation to include the X Window System, Java Desktop System, Installation & Packaging, Storage, and various other consolidations. It took a little longer than originally planned to start getting our X sources out (the original...
One year ago today, I wrote about how X fit into the OpenSolaris plans and why the portions released then were just the first of the Solaris consolidations to be released. Since then, OpenSolaris...
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...
