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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

Alan Coopersmith - June 11, 2008 X Server security advisories

Jun 14, 9:30 AM

On June 11, iDefense & the X.Org Foundation released security advisories for a set of issues in extension protocol parsing code in the open source X server common code base that iDefense discovered ...

moinakg - My New Blog

May 23, 4:54 AM

From now on I will be blogging at my personal blog site:  moinakg.wordpress.com some interesting tidbits coming up there regarding BeleniX.  

moinakg - Project Indiana Internals and BeleniX - Short Overview

May 20, 12:32 PM

I spent some time in the weekend doodling around with OpenOffice Draw to try and come up with some big diagram explaining the components of Indiana aka OpenSolaris 2008.05 since a picture is worth N ...

Alan Coopersmith - Too many dry eyes in the house

Mar 26, 1:12 PM

I've been falling further and further behind on blogging for a while - maybe I'll catch up someday with the cache of posts I have stored in my brain half written (there's a new issue of the X11 ...

moinakg - A Sad Time

Mar 20, 10:24 PM

I was quite shocked to learn yesterday that SciFi behemoth Arthur C. Clarke passed away . I am deeply saddened having had read and enjoyed most of his writings. His clarity of vision and expression ...