that’s whacked

libumem ported to linux/windows

Monday, Mar 13. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris, OpenSource

from Wez Furlong’s blog:

Since Solaris is OpenSourced under the CDDL, we were able to incorporate the allocator into Ecelerity and port it to Linux and Windows and not be forced to open-up our entire source-code.

see, now that’s cool. and a brilliant example of why commercial open source works. take something. extend it. make it better. release the source code. and build a product out of it (or around it in this case) and not worry about getting your ass sued.

mixed news on Sun

Thursday, Mar 9. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris

well. on the one hand. Sun’s stock is up. yay. part of this may have to do with the fanciful rumours of McNealy’s imminent retirement, and the even more fanciful (nay, delirious?) rumours of Sun’s acquisition by Google. (though, if that happens, and they rename the joint company – my vote is for Snoogle… you saw it here first).

anyway. the more realistic reason is cost-cutting. more cost-cutting, that unfortunately, came at the expense of my good friend and mentor Geoff. so that’s been my serious downer for the day.

Geoff: thanks, indeed, for all the fish (literally: you picked up the tab when we had sushi, so i can literally thank you for the fish). more so, thanks for the mentoring and sound advice you’ve given me. i always looked forward to our weekly calls, even if it was just to chat about Liverpool, ManU, or Formula 1 – more important though was the help you gave me in my nascent career at Sun.

opensolaris packaging (pkg*)

Thursday, Mar 2. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris

Dave Miner announced today the creation of the Installation & Packaging community and the affiliated SVR4 Packaging project so I thought I would give a quick status on the source for the packaging tools.

I finished the cleanup work, and integrated it back into the Install consolidation’s gate earlier this week. So all the technical work has been completed, we’re just waiting for legal signoff now. Once that occurs, we should be able to post the pkg* tools sources. Hopefully this will be a help to all the distributions (all 2 of them currently) that use the SVR4 packaging tools.