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Songbird 0.5 final on OpenSolaris

Monday, Apr 7. 2008  –  Category: OpenSolaris, Songbird

Alfred just built a Songbird 0.5 final build for OpenSolaris… his blog contains all the salient links for download and such.

I’ve been playing with it on my Thinkpad running snv_81 and it works a treat. In fact, it seems to work better than Songbird on my MacBook does. If my Thinkpad weren’t a beast to carry around, I might start to use it more. Maybe I should finally figure out how to BootCamp my MacBook into SXCE now.

Three cheers to Alfred for getting the 0.5 final built! I’m working on getting it hosted at the Songbird site now. We’ve not previously had a place to put up contributor builds, so this is kind of blazing the path for us there and helping us define a lot of stuff we need to do for the future anyway.

Along those lines, I proposed a topic for the upcoming OpenSolaris Developer Summit where the four of us (alfred, ken mays, albert lee (a.k.a. triskelios), and myself) could talk about and show off Songbird a bit. Obviously, I have a slight bias given I work at POTI - which is why I’ve coerced the other 3 into joining me so I sound like less of a corporate tool.

I’m hoping the four of us combined can swing a decent demo, while I hope Alfred can say a few words on working with the Songbird project devs. He’s in the unique situation of working for a huge corporation (Sun), contributing to an upstream open source project (Songbird) which is itself downstream from a huge open source project (Mozilla). Certainly I think Alfred has had some great interactions with the Songbird devs in terms of test, code review, patch submission, etc. that might be insightful as we work to open up the OpenSolaris developer contribution process. I know I’m curious to hear his thoughts anyway.