From ihsan at blastwave.org Mon Jan 15 21:10:45 2007 From: ihsan at blastwave.org (Ihsan Dogan) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:10:45 +0100 Subject: [csw-announce] Stable Release 2007-01 released Message-ID: <45ABDFC5.8010704@blastwave.org> We are pleased to announce that the 2007-01 stable release has been delivered. The ?stable? tree is a collection of software packages that have all been previously released to the public and have no open bugs filed against them. The Blastwave Software Stack ( simply ?the stack? ) is broken into three main trees of software packages. The first tree is called ?unstable? and it changes frequently. Software packages are continually being updated and released to the public via the ?unstable? tree. The next tree is called ?stable? and it will only change after release engineering has checked and reviewed all bugs filed against all software packages. There is also an internal tree simply called ?testing? and it is used for QA processes before a package enters the ?unstable? tree. Our current release manager is James Lee and he works closely with numerous others to ensure that only qualified software may enter the ?stable? tree. The ?stable? tree will change only when a complete release is ready. At most this will be four times a year, depending on various factors. Each software tree has many branches. There exists a distinct branch for the x86 ( 32-bit Intel Pentium, Pentium Pro, Celeron & Centrino and AMD Celeron & Athlon etc. etc. ) and this x86 branch also includes software for the 64-bit AMD Opteron processors. The Sparc branch is also on each release tree and it covers the sun4m ( HyperSparc, ROSS Sparc variants ) as well as 64-bit sun4u variations. Each of these architecture branches covers the various versions of production Solaris as well as beta release Solaris Nevada or Solaris Express. This includes the Solaris Express Community Release also but we can only truely say that we ?support? the production grade releases of Solaris 8, Solaris 9 and Solaris 10. The Solaris ABI ( Application Binary Interface ) assures users of Solaris that any application which is well behaved on Solaris 8 will also be well behaved on Solaris 9 and Solaris 10. This is the ?golden rule? of Solaris: any application that runs on a currently shipping edition of Solaris will also run on any other shipping edition of Solaris. Please feel FREE to join the mail lists at https://lists.blastwave.org/mailman/listinfo and talk with others about how to build, maintain, install and distribute open source software to the Solaris world. -- ihsan at dogan.ch http://ihsan.dogan.ch/ From ihsan at blastwave.org Mon Jan 15 21:10:45 2007 From: ihsan at blastwave.org (Ihsan Dogan) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:10:45 +0100 Subject: [csw-announce] Stable Release 2007-01 released Message-ID: <45ABDFC5.8010704@blastwave.org> We are pleased to announce that the 2007-01 stable release has been delivered. The ?stable? tree is a collection of software packages that have all been previously released to the public and have no open bugs filed against them. The Blastwave Software Stack ( simply ?the stack? ) is broken into three main trees of software packages. The first tree is called ?unstable? and it changes frequently. Software packages are continually being updated and released to the public via the ?unstable? tree. The next tree is called ?stable? and it will only change after release engineering has checked and reviewed all bugs filed against all software packages. There is also an internal tree simply called ?testing? and it is used for QA processes before a package enters the ?unstable? tree. Our current release manager is James Lee and he works closely with numerous others to ensure that only qualified software may enter the ?stable? tree. The ?stable? tree will change only when a complete release is ready. At most this will be four times a year, depending on various factors. Each software tree has many branches. There exists a distinct branch for the x86 ( 32-bit Intel Pentium, Pentium Pro, Celeron & Centrino and AMD Celeron & Athlon etc. etc. ) and this x86 branch also includes software for the 64-bit AMD Opteron processors. The Sparc branch is also on each release tree and it covers the sun4m ( HyperSparc, ROSS Sparc variants ) as well as 64-bit sun4u variations. Each of these architecture branches covers the various versions of production Solaris as well as beta release Solaris Nevada or Solaris Express. This includes the Solaris Express Community Release also but we can only truely say that we ?support? the production grade releases of Solaris 8, Solaris 9 and Solaris 10. The Solaris ABI ( Application Binary Interface ) assures users of Solaris that any application which is well behaved on Solaris 8 will also be well behaved on Solaris 9 and Solaris 10. This is the ?golden rule? of Solaris: any application that runs on a currently shipping edition of Solaris will also run on any other shipping edition of Solaris. Please feel FREE to join the mail lists at https://lists.blastwave.org/mailman/listinfo and talk with others about how to build, maintain, install and distribute open source software to the Solaris world. -- ihsan at dogan.ch http://ihsan.dogan.ch/