http://sun.systemnews.com OpenSolaris http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/4/OpenSolaris/20500 An OpenSolaris ARC (architecture board) proposal to support booting Solaris from iSCSI has been approved as PSARC/2008/427. The problem was that Solaris was unable to be boot-off from iSCSI disk. This is a drawback which limits Solaris' competency in iSCSI SAN enviroment, diskless clients. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/3/OpenSolaris/20369 There is a Solaris for everyone, as shown by a blog in The Observatory: Distributions of OpenSolaris. Here there are brief examples of the different versions of Solaris and their applications. Roman Strobl, who is responsible for the entry shows the different distributions of Solaris. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/3/OpenSolaris/20451 To access information on everything (literally, everything) you might ever have wanted to know about OpenSolaris, have a look at "Introduction to Operating Systems: A Hands-On Approach to Using the OpenSolaris Project." http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/2/OpenSolaris/20250 At the OpenSolaris Developer Conference in Prague on June 25, 2008, Roman Shaposhnik presented OpenSolaris as an ideal development platform. In a video, Sun's Roman Shaposhnik presents on OpenSolaris as an ideal development platform. Also featured in the video are Adriaan De Groot from Project KDE. Here de Groot explains the use of Solaris as the platform for development on the KDE project. Furthermore, Dennis Chemoivanov from Tocarema AB explains a more commercial style of using OpenSolaris. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/2/OpenSolaris/20385 July's (slightly shorter than usual?) news report - as always, please add missing stuff to the comments section. Topics include: Project Sierra - more Intel wifi chipsets OSDEvCon presentations and videos online Integrated Load Balancer project OpenSolaris development build nv_93-based available Milax 0.3.1 for SPARC OpenSolaris Trademark Policy 1.0 - Wed Jul 16 "] Belenix 0.7.1 Community Governance simplification conversations PSARC 2008/393 zfs primarycache and secondarycache properties See also the OpenSolaris Trademark page. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/2/OpenSolaris/20416 Ben Rockwood says that, "The first annual OpenSolaris Storage Summit is coming on Sunday, September 21st, to San Jose, to be followed by SNIA's Storage Developer Conference. This is really exciting. SNIA SDC is one of the best storage conferences in the world (along with USENIX FAST), and OpenSolaris is undoubtedly the most powerful storage platform on earth... this is an excellent opportunity to get a lot of excellent and rewarding information in a week and get to meet the minds behind the technology in OpenSolaris." http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/5/OpenSolaris/20220 Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. One might think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. This article introduces Wine and demonstrates how to use it to run Windows in OpenSolaris 2008.05. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/1/OpenSolaris/20261 Rafael Vanoni Polanczyk, from Sun's Solaris Kernel Performance Group delivered a 40 minute talk called, "OpenSolaris and NUMA Architecture", at the Open Solaris Developer Conference. Topics in the talk: Where did NUMA come from? Access Latencies Topology Considerations Optimizing for NUMA Topology discovery A peek at the implementation Where is NUMA going? http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/1/OpenSolaris/20233 Tim recently summarized what the OpenSolaris community has been talking about, including: 1st Community Strategy Planning meeting New AI Prototype Available Apple fixes their DTrace bug (thanks!) DTrace on FreeBSD MilaX 0.3.1 Storage Driver Test Suite (SDTS) open sourced! PSARC/2008/382 PSARC 2008/302 DTrace IP Provider integrates The Times They Are A-Changin' We Are Three! (Happy Birthday OpenSolaris) rum v0.1 OpenSolaris pkg repository updates to nv_90, nv_91 Jun '08 OpenSolaris 2008.05 bundled with C't magazine "A Network In A Computer" OSDevCon photo & 5,500 other OpenSolaris-related photos http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/4/OpenSolaris/20118 Find out how to optimize OpenSolaris on Intel Xeon processors in a video clip series hosted by Software Engineering Manager David Stewart, who is part of the Open Source Technology Center at Intel.