Cool Stack Project
Cool Stack is a collection of some of the most commonly used open
source applications optimized for the Sun Solaris OS platform. By using
these binaries you will enjoy the best levels of
performance from your system, while also reducing your time-to-service.
Cool Stack had been originally conceived to provide a set of
out-of-the-box optimized binaries for a common set of software
components on the UltraSPARC T1 based systems. By performing this
packaging for the community, the OpenSPARC project and Sun's
Performance Technologies group had a goal to make it easy for users
to quickly add packages to their existing systems to quickly obtain
optimized performance and reducing time to service.
Over time, there was sufficient demand for an equivalent set of
packages on x64, so a similar set of optimized packages and build
scripts were put together for the i386 and amd64 architectures as
appropriate.
Cool Stack derived its name from the CoolTools project it is
associated with.
More Cool Stack information here: http://cooltools.sunsource.net/coolstack/
Please note that Cool Stack is not WebStack. Cool Stack predated and inspired the WebStack project but it is a separate effort. As noted above, Cool Stack builds stand-alone packages which can be installed onto Solaris 10. Cool Stack does not deliver components into OpenSolaris. For historical reasons, Cool Stack sources (see below) continue to be hosted here on the Web Stack project. For WebStack information, refer to the
main project pages.
Obtaining Cool Stack Packages
Cool Stack is available for download from the Sun Download
Center. Packages are available both for SPARC and x86 platforms.
Source snapshot packages are also available for each version.
- Latest Release - Cool Stack 1.2 supports Solaris 10 and Solaris Express Developer Edition.
- Previous Release -
Cool
Stack 1.1 supports Solaris Express Developer Edition and Solaris
10.
Latest Cool Stack Sources
The current source tree for Cool Stack is available from the
webstack project svn repository. You can browse the Cool
Stack source using the opensolaris.org
source browser.
You can check out the source tree via svn:
%
svn co
svn+ssh://<username>@svn.opensolaris.org/svn/webstack/webstack
where <username> is your opensolaris.org user name. In order
to have access to check out the sources you need to set
up an ssh key in your user profile (even if you only want to do a
checkout).
Please remember that this source repository is for the stand-alone Cool
Stack builds only. If you are interested in the OpenSolaris WebStack
project source, see here
instead.
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