that’s whacked

nightingale is hatched

Tuesday, Nov 13. 2007  –  Category: OpenSolaris, Songbird

Project Nightingale has officially been hatched, and I’m psyched to be able to post this with both the Songbird AND OpenSolaris blog tags. Albert (aka Triskelios) has done some impressive work already in trying to get XULRunner and Songbird ported over to OpenSolaris. We’ve hit some speedbumps though, and thought that formalising it into a project and getting some more eyes and hands on things would help speed it along. We’ve been approved and are being graciously sponsored by the Desktop Community.

I’m really psyched and looking forward to having the most kickass media player (no bias whatsoever) ported to and running on the best operating system (again, no bias whatsoever). Being able to combine my two favourite open source projects rocks.

So if you’re a desktop hacker, a media player expert, a Mozilla whiz, or just someone looking for a fun project to hack on - please join the project, and help out. We’ll have Albert’s patches posted soon, and we’ll be having our discussion in the Desktop forum, or you can subscribe to the Desktop mailing list.