After the LinuxWorld Expo show floor closed today, a bunch of us from X.Org went out for dinner across the street at Vinny T's. The conversation eventually got...
After the LinuxWorld Expo show floor closed today, a bunch of us from X.Org went out for dinner across the street at Vinny T's. The conversation eventually got down to the inevitable question - modular or monolithic? The monolothic choice seems more traditional, while the modular option is definitely a popular modern style. The problem of course was that the monolithic way means we all have to agree on the parts we want to get and get it all in one huge pile, while some...
After the LinuxWorld Expo show floor closed today, a bunch of us from X.Org went out for dinner across the street at Vinny T's. The conversation eventually got down to the inevitable question...
Just in time for this weekend's X.Org Developer's Meeting, X.Org 6.8.2 has been released. This is mainly a bug fix and new hardware support release, so not...
Just in time for this weekend's X.Org Developer's Meeting, X.Org 6.8.2 has been released. This is mainly a bug fix and new hardware support release, so not incredibly exciting except as the first test of our ability to turn out maintainence releases. This one took a little longer than originally planned due to the freedesktop.org downtime and winter holidays, but we shouldn't have those interfere with 6.8.3. For those who want to know what may be coming in the next big...
Just in time for this weekend's X.Org Developer's Meeting, X.Org 6.8.2 has been released. This is mainly a bug fix and new hardware support release, so not incredibly exciting except as the first test...
So now that Solaris 10 is out, I went back over the list of the changes we put in the X Window System components. If I got the grep options right, there were...
So now that Solaris 10 is out, I went back over the list of the changes we put in the X Window System components. If I got the grep options right, there were 689 entries in our equivalent of a ChangeLog. Of course, these range from a 2 minute man page typo fix to things like "merge STSF development tree into S10 branch" which represent multiple engineering years of work and of course the integration of the Xorg server for Solaris x86, which while it distills down to a single...
So now that Solaris 10 is out, I went back over the list of the changes we put in the X Window System components. If I got the grep options right, there were 689 entries in our equivalent of...
The third (and probably final) release candidate of Xorg 6.8.2 is now out at http://xorg.freedesktop.org/X11R6.8.2/ (look for the 6.8.1.903 tarballs - see the...
The third (and probably final) release candidate of Xorg 6.8.2 is now out at http://xorg.freedesktop.org/X11R6.8.2/ (look for the 6.8.1.903 tarballs - see the announcement for MD5 sums). Bug fixes since the last release include: Bugzilla #1424: Fix problems with RENDER extension acceleration on R100 cards (via pre-rendering small texture). [Matthias Hopf - SuSE] Bugzilla #2322: Fix corruption of PCI config BAR1 of native PCI-Express boards on 64-bit platforms. [Michael...
The third (and probably final) release candidate of Xorg 6.8.2 is now out at http://xorg.freedesktop.org/X11R6.8.2/ (look for the 6.8.1.903 tarballs - see the announcement for MD5 sums). Bug...
“Sun offers open source Solaris snack pack” is The Register's contribution to the many stories about the OpenSolaris site launch today. In it, they note that...
“Sun offers open source Solaris snack pack” is The Register's contribution to the many stories about the OpenSolaris site launch today. In it, they note that people have taken to pronouncing the license's acronym CDDL as “cuddle.” Curiously, one of the participants in the OpenSolaris pilot program runs a site named cuddletech - which seems like a perfect name for discussing technology released under the “cuddle” license. Of course, the domainname was registered in 1999, so...
“Sun offers open source Solaris snack pack” is The Register's contribution to the many stories about the OpenSolaris site launch today. In it, they note that people have taken to pronouncing...
Everyone's favorite Solaris programming book author, Rich Teer was visiting the Sun Menlo Park campus this week, and I got to serve as host for an impromptu...
Everyone's favorite Solaris programming book author, Rich Teer was visiting the Sun Menlo Park campus this week, and I got to serve as host for an impromptu meet-and-greet tour of the building where much of the Solaris core engineering teams work. At one point, we ran into Casper Dik, Solaris FAQ maintainer and designer of Solaris 10's new privilege model, who was also here on a visit. Of course, I couldn't help thinking that were an asteroid to hit the building right then,...
Everyone's favorite Solaris programming book author, Rich Teer was visiting the Sun Menlo Park campus this week, and I got to serve as host for an impromptu meet-and-greet tour of the building...
Xorg 6.8.2 Release Manager Roland Mainz has tagged and bagged Release Candidate 2 and put it out for testing. See his announcement to the Xorg mailing list for...
Xorg 6.8.2 Release Manager Roland Mainz has tagged and bagged Release Candidate 2 and put it out for testing. See his announcement to the Xorg mailing list for details. There's a much smaller number of fixes in this release than RC1, but there's still plenty to test.Like RC1, we've pulled it into the Xorg packages for the next release of Solaris (too late for Solaris 10) - you should see them in Solaris Express around the 2/05 or 3/05 releases.[Technorati Tag: Xorg]...
Xorg 6.8.2 Release Manager Roland Mainz has tagged and bagged Release Candidate 2 and put it out for testing. See his announcement to the Xorg mailing list for details. There's a much smaller number...
Solaris ships with several X configuration utilities which require additional privileges to run. To allow selected users to run these without having to have the...
Solaris ships with several X configuration utilities which require additional privileges to run. To allow selected users to run these without having to have the root password, an RBAC (Role Based Access Control) rights profile has been created with the name "Desktop Configuration". Users with the rights granted by this profile can do these things normally requiring root privileges, starting in Solaris 10 (build s10_73 and later): Change the SMF configuration for the X11 &...
Solaris ships with several X configuration utilities which require additional privileges to run. To allow selected users to run these without having to have the root password, an RBAC (Role...
I mentioned a while ago about the new look of the Solaris 10 login screen (which was updated again after that original post to match the new Solaris logo and...
I mentioned a while ago about the new look of the Solaris 10 login screen (which was updated again after that original post to match the new Solaris logo and branding themes). A question that I've been asked a couple of times since then is how the new look, with the greeting in a smaller text box centered on the right side, affects people who replace the "Welcome to hostname" with another message, like the "Anyone who uses this computer without permission will suffer...
I mentioned a while ago about the new look of the Solaris 10 login screen (which was updated again after that original post to match the new Solaris logo and branding themes). A question that...
