[OSUNIX-dev] Exciting project updates

[C.]

Things have been quiet, but we've been hard at work to push the OSUNIX 
project forward.  From the start one of our main goals has been to unit 
the community of developers interested in OpenSolaris technology.  It's 
with great honor that the Belenix team has decided to merge work and 
continue as a unified effort.  With that there will soon be two branches 
of OSUNIX.

    * Belenix - Stable, rock solid and suitable for workstation
    * Vertigo - Future technology, newer packages and great research
      platform. (Will branch after Belenix merge)

In the coming months we plan to focus specifically on

    * Fully open (last part is libc)
    * Tools for building appliances
    * Solid virtualization platform and image creation (xen / virtualbox)
    * Large scale storage management (interface on top of libzfs)
    * Better documentation
    * Xorg 1.6
    * KDE4.2 + seamless desktop integration
    * Better installer with package selection and zfs options


For developers and evangelists we can now offer @osunix.org emails.  
It's powered by Google hosted apps so has all the same great features as 
gmail with imap and pop3 support.  Let us know if you're interested.

New ways to get notified of patches/commits
http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/osunix-commits

http://hg.osunix.org/osunix-gate/rss/
http://hg.osunix.org/osunix-gate/atom/

Source repo has moved
https://osunix@hg.osunix.org/osunix-gate/

Packages
https://osunix@hg.osunix.org/osunix-overlay

OSPKG (fork of pkgcore)
ospkg is a fork of pkgcore which aims to add innovative features that 
are unacceptable to the current pkgcore developers. This will include a 
better handling of QA through QA sets, defining package boundaries and a 
policy based system that replaces the package.* configs. In addition 
we'll add better docs, error handling/reporting, and a much improved 
ability to build multiple binary formats. (eg. debs, oxe and possibly 
rpm) ospkg will tie seamlessly into smart package manager to function as 
tightly coupled complete solution for managing the global zones and zones.

https://osunix@hg.osunix.org/ospkg/

It's been a while, but the port of the Open64 compiler is almost done.  
It currently will build optimized c code and we need to fix a couple 
bugs for it to generate c++.  Benchmarks and the full evaluation will be 
posted online soon.

Current patch:
http://pkg.osunix.org/open64/open64-opensolaris-fbsd-merged-3-24.diff.gz


In terms of documentation you'll notice a few new additions to 
http://www.osunix.org  In the future it will be a very high priority to 
properly document all packaging and new developer items so people have 
the easiest time getting started.  Moinak from the belenix team is 
helping package an iso and virtualbox image.  Soon after that we'll make 
sure all getting started guides are updated.  I hope this makes things a 
lot more clear and as always all questions/comments are welcome.



Cheers,

./Christopher


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