OpenSolaris

1. Community: Software Porters
   1. Announcements
   2. Blogs
   3. Discussions
   4. Events
   5. Leaders
   6. Links
   7. Membership
   8. Observers
   9. Contributing OpenSolaris Packages
      1. IPS Repo Descriptions
      2. Source Juicer Contrib Process
      3. Dev Repo Process
      4. Package Components
      5. Package Build Procedure
      6. Package Classifications
      7. Spec File Description
      8. Repo Process Roles
      9. Spec File Build Procedure
   10. Porting Software to Opensolaris
       1. Creating a Development Desktop on OpenSolaris
   11. Porting Software to SXCE
       1. Creating a Development Desktop on SXCE
   12. Porting Resources
   13. Files
   14. Web Page Archive
       1. Pending Repo Process
       2. Contrib Repo Process

OpenSolaris Community: Software Porters

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Community Observers

• Companion - /opt/sfw: Free and Open Source software
  
• F/OSS Package Base
  
• HA-MySQL
  
• Image Packaging System
  
• Journaled File System (JFS)
  
• K Desktop Environment
  
• MilaX minimal Live Distribution
  
• Pkgfactory
  
• SFW
  
• SourceJuicer
  
• Squashfs
  
• Star integration/migration project
  
• Web Stack
  
• Xfce -- A lightweight desktop environment
  

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Welcome to the Software Porters Community!

This community centralizes support for porting software to OpenSolaris. If you know of any links, documents, projects you think should be added to our effort, let us know.

Join Us!

1. Register on opensolaris.org
2. Subscribe to sw-porters-discuss
3. Participate on the sw-porters forum, or become a package maintainer or port a package

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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 together with other projects involved in porting software (like desktop, SFW, etc...) all information regarding their work and be the central point of information regarding all things porting and ported software on 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.

• Tools Community - which covers compilers, source code management, and tools used in software construction in OpenSolaris generally.
• Desktop Community - which works on providing Desktop interfaces to the OpenSolaris Community
• Device Drivers Community - which 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

• spec-files-exra - extends pkgbuild and provides many many packaging files not related to JDS
• 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

• 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.

Announcements

24 Mar 2009	SourceJuicer v1.0 Released
23 Jan 2009	Over 10,000 Packages in Pending Repo
10 Dec 2008	/contrib repo live
03 Dec 2008	/pending repo live
28 Mar 2008	as(1) for x86 platforms finaly redistributable

Blogs

Darryl Gove - BBC computer history slidecast

Jul 2, 1:29 PM

Interesting slidecast with audio from the BBC on the history of computers in the valley . Runs about 5 minutes, so there's not much detail, but some interesting images.

Darryl Gove - Introduction to parallel programming

Jul 1, 9:17 AM

My colleague, Ruud van der Pas , has recorded a series of seven webcasts on parallel programming which will be released on the HPC portal . Ruud is an expert on parallel programming, and one of the ...

Darryl Gove - Cost of pointer chasing in libmtmalloc

Jun 26, 12:23 PM

I thought I'd quickly write up some comments about how to improve the issue with mtmalloc . The "obvious" solution is to allocate larger chunks of memory. I was using 512 byte objects, so 72KB can ...

Darryl Gove - mtmalloc vs umem

Jun 26, 11:15 AM

A little while back I was looking at the performance of the STL with multithreaded code . I got the opportunity to try this on a particular code, and rather shockingly to me performance was ...

Darryl Gove - Sun Studio 12 Update 1

Jun 23, 10:01 AM

Sun Studio 12 Update 1 went live yesterday. It's still a free download , and it's got a raft of new features . Many people will have been using the express releases , so they will already be familiar ...