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X open-source/modularization/modernization status page posted | 11/20/2007

http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Opening_X_Components shows the current status of what parts of our old, closed X11R6-based X tree we've replaced with new, X11R7-based open source modules in Nevada so far .

More info on what needs to be done can be found in the announcement e-mail at http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2007-November/002668.html.

Fully Open X (FOX) Project sponsored | 07/10/2007

The X Window System Community has agreed to sponsor a new OpenSolaris project, FOX: The Fully Open X Project. The Fully Open X Project (FOX) will create a public Mercurial gate on opensolaris.org containing a merge of these three source bases:

  • the current OpenSolaris X code drops published by the Sun X team
  • the Xorg SPARC driver sources created by Martin Bochnig for Martux
  • the full X11R7.2 source builds created by Moinak Ghosh for Belenix
This will provide a common source base for distros to build from, a faster release path for Sun's changes than releasing a snapshot tarball every 1-2 months, and access to changes not yet accepted by Sun's process into Solaris Express.

For more information on the project, see the project announcement or project web page.

Xorg 7.2 in Solaris Nevada Build 58 | 02/20/2007

The Xorg 7.2 X servers and drivers have been integrated into Nevada build 58. For the first time, this includes not only 32-bit x86 X server binaries, but also 64-bit x86 and 64-bit SPARC X server binaries. The Xorg server is also joined on all platforms by the Xorg version of Xvfb and the Xephyr nested X server.

For more details, see the heads up message posted to xwin-discuss.

marTux_0.1 LiveCD with Xorg for sparc | 04/10/2006

… is the first non-sx/sxcr OpenSolaris distribution for sparc (sun4u for now, sun4v later).

I'm having a nice Desktop distro in mind, in the longer run.

It is already featuring a complete gcc3 built X.Org X11R6.9 (incl. the actual Xorg server binary and therefore finally with drivers supporting a few pci sparc frame buffers).

See http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/alanc?entry=xorg_for_solaris_sparc for the until-today background story.

It does work now :)

These are the first working X.Org binaries for sparc – Solaris ever released! You might try "xorgconfig" / "Xorg -configure" / "startx" etc. if you have a TSI Raptor 8p , PGX, PGX32, PGX64 or XVR-100 framebuffer.

The initial homepage will be at http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~mbeinsx/marTux starting over the night / tomorrow.

I'll make the currend marTux_01.iso image available within the next 48 hours or less.

This v0.1 release is unstable ALPHA software.

Please report your experience to bochnig AT pool.math.tu-berlin DOT de

X Consolidation sources posted to opensolaris.org | 03/31/2006

The first code drop from the X Window System Consolidation has been posted to opensolaris.org. It's a snapshot of a subset of the Solaris X Consolidation code from partway through Nevada build 38.

Details on what's included and links to downloads & licenses can be found on the X Community Sources page at: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/x_win/sources/

Source is not yet available in the OpenSolaris Source Browser, but work is in progress on preparing that for availability sometime next week.