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   2. Events
   3. News
   4. Blogs
   5. Leaders
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   7. Files
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   9. Porting Software To SXCE
      1. Creating a porters desktop on SXCE the SunStudio and SFE way
   10. Links
   11. Where do I get ressources for my porting project
   12. Discussions
   13. Porting Software to Opensolaris 2008
       1. The Image Packaging System - IPS
       2. Creating a porters desktop on IOpenSolaris 2008 the Sunstudio and SFE way

OpenSolaris Community: Software Porters

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Community Observers

• F/OSS Package Base
  
• HA-MySQL
  
• Image Packaging System
  
• Journaled File System (JFS)
  
• K Desktop Environment
  
• MilaX minimal Live Distribution
  
• SFW
  
• Squashfs
  
• Xfce -- A lightweight desktop environment
  

Welcome to the Software Porters Community.

We are working on creating a place that centralizes all things porting (with porting meaning porting software to OpenSolaris) for you, the people that want to port software, in one place. We have just started so bear with us while we create this place. If you know of any links, documents, projects you think should be added to our effort, let us know.

Community Goals

The Software Porters Community Group shall be the group that coordinates, advocates, encourages and helps with the porting of Software from multiple Platforms to the OpenSolaris Platform. It is a community of porters, advocates and advisers that will help people who want to port software, advise them, create documentation and maintain links and resources about the many different places you can find information and ported software. This will be handled in a way that shall be independent of religion and politics regarding amongst others the way packages are done or if sunstudio or gcc are the better way to do things.

The OpenSolaris Software Porters Community will actively work to collect from all the other projects involved in porting software (like desktop for example) all information regarding their work and be the central point of information regarding all things porting and ported software to OpenSolaris.org.

Related Communities

There are a range of communities working on porting different kinds of software to Opensolaris, which we list here to provide easy access to their resources.

• OpenSolaris Tools The Tools community covers compilers, source code management, and tools used in software construction in OpenSolaris generally.

• Desktop The Desktop community works on providing Desktop interfaces to the OpenSolaris Community

• Device Drivers The Device Drivers community works on getting more and more device drivers into the OpenSolaris World.

Additional Resources

Packaging projects and communities

• Blastwave – a very large and well established community effort to bring many popular packages to the solaris platform. There are well over 1700+ packages available for both the classic SVR4 format as well as a beta IPS package service located at http://blastwave.network.com:10000/ for the new OpenSolaris binary users. Blastwave, with its blazing sun logo, is centered around providing software services via a debian style packaging system called pkg-get. All software is located in /opt/csw such that there is no interference with the existing operating system files.

• SunFreeware – SunFreeware provides many packages of OpenSource software in SySV package format, installed at /usr/local

Source based packaging systems

• pkgbuild – pkgbuild is the tool chosen by the JDS people to create rpm like .spec files for building software packages for the OpenSolaris world. Since than it has been extended and now provides in:

• spec-files-extra – SFE many many packaging files not related to JDS

• gentoo-prefix – Gentoo Prefix uses Gentoo Portage to install packages from source in an self-sufficient offset location. 64-bits support for Solaris 10 already.

General Porting information from SUN

• Porting Guidelines for Solaris Operating System, x86 Platform Edition – This white paper provides guidelines for porting applications to Solaris OS for x86. Real-world case studies from a number of ISVs highlight the ease of the porting process, the resources involved and issues to consider.

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Announcements

28 Mar 2008	as(1) for x86 platforms finaly redistributable
17 Mar 2008	SSGD based developer platform in the works ?
14 Mar 2008	New Openolaris Social Network Site in the works ?
11 Mar 2008	Membership rules posted
06 Mar 2008	OpenSolaris Software Porters Community granted

Events

24 Oct 2008

OpenSolaris conference in Szczecin

Blogs

Darryl Gove - Voting in California

Oct 7, 8:12 AM

We recently became citizens, so this was the first election in which we'd be eligible to vote. Probably somewhat enthusiastically I sat down with the thick set of documents and tried to figure out ...

Darryl Gove - The healing power of WD40

Oct 6, 11:12 PM

I have a Boss ME-6 guitar effects pedal. I got it around 16 years ago, it's been sat idle in the garage for quite a while now. Last time I tried it most of the buttons had stopped responding, so the ...

migi - Building IPS on OpenSolaris

Oct 6, 9:18 AM

If someone needs (fresh OpenSoaris installation): pkg install ss-dev SUNWgnome-common-devel hg clone ssh://anon at hg dot opensolaris dot org/hg/pkg/gate build_gate cd build_gate export ...

Michal Bielicki - Postgresql 8.3 64bit on OpenSolaris Nevada snv98

Oct 1, 7:29 AM

For everybody who wants to run postgresql 8.3 64bit on nevada snv98, hier the instructions to get you up and running: as root do: chown postgres /var/postgresql/8.3/data_64 as postgres do: ...

Darryl Gove - OpenSolaris Curriculum Development Resources

Sep 25, 3:42 PM

There's an excellent set of documents about OpenSolaris , the documents are meant to be used to support OpenSolaris in the curriculum , but they look very useful outside the educational context.