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Archived Illumos Articles
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10 Dec 2007
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aMSN Messenger Clone Ported to OpenSolaris [19046]
Free Downloads of Application, Plug-ins and Skins
aMSN, a free, open source MSN Messenger clone, has been ported to Solaris, Colin Zou announced in his blog. aMSN has a web site from which the application, plug-ins and skins can be downloaded. Features can be easily added to aMSN with plug-ins, and its look can be completely changed with different skins.
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10 Dec 2007
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New-Boot SPARC Putback Announced [19123]
Redesign of Solaris SPARC Bootstrap Process Underway
The new-boot SPARC putback has been announced, bringing dboot, ramdisk-based booting and the ramdisk miniroot to SPARC. According to Tim Foster, the importance in this development is that it "paves the way for ZFS Boot on SPARC!"
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19 Nov 2007
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Updated Version of Solaris Package Companion, v0.7 [18954]
Tags Item Descriptions, Adds New Folding Option
Distinguished Engineer Glenn Brunette has published an updated version of the Solaris Package Companion (SPC), version 0.7, which is a small Korn shell script that helps users define relationships between Solaris metaclusters, clusters and packages, and their respective dependencies.
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19 Nov 2007
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Two New OpenSolaris Projects: CIFS Server and CIFS Client for Solaris [18957]
To Aid File Sharing With Microsoft Windows
Sun has donated server software source code that implements the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, also known as Server Message Block (SMB), to facilitate Microsoft Windows interoperability. CIFS is the standard for Windows file sharing services. Two OpenSolaris projects have been launched to promote file-sharing between Windows and OpenSolaris, and improve the usefulness of OpenSolaris in data environments that serve NFS and CIFS clients.
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19 Nov 2007
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Jim Grisanzio on Japan's OpenSolaris Community [18994]
Cites Importance of Project Indiana in Getting Developers Involved
Jim Grisanzio, Tokyo-based OpenSolaris engineering community manager, identified the release of Project Indiana as OpenSolaris Developer Preview as the biggest current news for the community. He shared this information with Sun's Carolyn Wong. Project Indiana is also credited with having made the developer involvement easier through downloads of "Slim Install."
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19 Nov 2007
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OpenSolaris Project Runs Solaris as an SCSI Target [19011]
The Common Multiprotocol SCSI Target (COMSTAR) Project
The OpenSolaris Project: COMSTAR (Common Multiprotocol SCSI Target) is a software framework that allows a server running OpenSolaris to look like a SCSI storage array to another server. It features extensive LUN masking and mapping functions, multipathing across different transport protocols, multiple parallel transfers per SCSI command, a scalable design approach and works with generic HBAs.
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