Blastwave is a collective effort to create a set of binary packages of free software, that can be automatically installed to a Solaris computer (SPARC or x86 based) over the network. Blastwave has a substantial build server farm for the use of the software developers and maintainers in the Solaris community.
In this month's update:
Available packages
How to use Blastwave
New primary mirror in Beijing China
Article - "The Solaris 8 Container & Solaris 9 Container : A Brief Introduction"
The latest stable release of the blastwave collection of 1,680 software packages is now available. SPARC and x86 binaries are available. To install one or more of these packages, you will probably want to take advantage of pkg-get, the automated download install tool. Once installed, it makes installing any other package here as easy as, "pkg-get install softwarename".
Blastwave.org is an organization which prepares and packages open source software for the Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system.
Blastwave is the home of multiple Solaris-oriented projects, including CSW or "Community Software for Solaris". The objective of the CSW project is to allow Solaris users to freely have pre-packaged open source software in accordance with specified standards. Software is in SVR4 compliant package format and ready to run via the simple pkg-get tool. This process includes a testing stage, open evaluation and bug reporting and final release to a "unstable" and "stable" tree
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