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OpenSolaris Project: Fully Open X Project

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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.

While the long term goal is Solaris API/ABI compatibility, that won't be achieved initially (since Sun is still working on opening the sources required for certain API's not yet in open source releases). This will not be the master gate for Solaris for a while, but may eventually be the master gate for the open portions of the Solaris X consolidation.

While no other formal OpenSolaris Projects are related to this work, as noted above, this work ties together work being done in the Solaris Express, Martux and Belenix distros.

The project for now will use the X Community's xwin-discuss mailing list. (If traffic in the future becomes too great for that list, a separate mailing list can be easily requested at that time.)

Source Repository

• Browse/search source online via OpenGrok
• Checkout code via mercurial by running: hg clone ssh://anon@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/fox/fox-gate (Mercurial instructions)
• Sign up for notifications of commits or see archives of commit messages on fox-notify mailing list
• Build the sources following these instructions.

Announcements

15 Jan 2008	Building FSW packages from the FOX gate
20 Nov 2007	X open-source/modularization/modernization status page posted
15 Aug 2007	nv_72 X changes pushed to fox-gate
06 Aug 2007	Project FOX web page & repository are now live...

Blogs

moinakg - Gnome 2.26 on BeleniX

Jun 26, 6:09 AM

Apart from KDE4, Gnome 2.26 will also be available in BeleniX 0.8. I pulled the Desktop Consolidation trunk (JDS) and built it with a bunch of changes. The packages are already available in the ...

moinakg - KDE 4.2.4 – Getting there

Jun 21, 6:29 AM

I have been heads down busy getting KDE 4.2.4 to build on BeleniX with Gcc 4.4. I recently completed kdebindings and kdebase and had enough to get a KDE4 desktop started. Since I am doing chrooted ...

williamxue - Changing Truetype Fonts path to make NV and OpenSolaris same

May 25, 1:34 AM

Solaris Nevada will be " Changing Truetype Fonts path to make NV and OpenSolaris same ". Post simple description one-page here for discussion.  It's automatic approved now. If you have any comments, ...

moinakg - Func on OpenSolaris

May 13, 8:10 AM

Func or Fedora Unified Network Contrtoller is a Fedora project that introduces a new framework to easily and securely control one or more machines remotely using either a programmatic or cli ...

moinakg - Gcc 4.4.0 in BeleniX

May 4, 11:01 AM

Gcc 4.4.0 release is now available in BeleniX package repository trunk at pkg.belenix.org. It built without issues out of the box and as a test I was able to build BOOST 1.38.1 and a patched Qt4 ...