Blogging Roller

The said it couldn't be done. They were wrong. OpenSolaris has been released under a true open source license and the project will be run as a true open source project, with outside contributors and independent distros and everything. Congrats to everybody inside and outside of Sun who helped maket his happen. This is definitely a historic day for open source.

It may also be a historic day for blogging. It's not a "normal" product launch, that's for sure. Instead of launching OpenSolaris with a media splash, press releases and a carefully crafted message, the OpenSolaris crew has taken over blogs.sun.com and let the bloggers loose. They're blogging (blogs.sun.com and opensolaris.org) and tagging (technorati, del.icio.us and flickr) and chatting (#opensolaris at freenode.net) and badging and getting the word out in their own imaginative and personal ways. I'm proud to be even a small part of that and I can't wait to get my hands on the code (of course, like everything else in my life, that'll happen right after I finish the book).

• Opening day overview
  "Welcome to OpenSolaris. Opening Day is here."
• Engineer-driven communities
  Eric: "So what‘s the wrong way for a company to go open-source?"
• OpenSolaris news
  Round-up of press articles on OpenSolaris launch
• Real Unix, Real Open
  OpenSolaris is availabe via BitTorrent
• OpenSolaris source browser
  Chandan says it's powered by Apache Lucene
• More open than open
  Dan says Solaris is simply Sun's OpenSolaris distribution
• I told you so
  Clingan: "I wont tell the numerous folks hiding behind "Anonymous Coward" "I told you so" either, mostly because I don't want to lower their self esteem even further."
• OpenSolaris era
  "The work inside the firewall will begin to happen outside the firewall," Goguen said.
• Open!
  Jim: "OpenSolaris changes everything at Sun. Everything"
• OpenSolaris graduates
  Justin: "Now, the hard part begins. Come and join the effort"

Preview version of the new NetBeans CVS Support now available!: The NetBeans team is proud to announce a preview (alpha) version of the new redesigned CVS support, an innovative approach to integration of a Version Control System (VCS) into the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The new module provides a simple, efficient IDE versioning workflow and intelligent support for common versioning operations.

The module is not derived from the current NetBeans VCS support, but instead is meant as a lightweight approach with less focus on architectural abstraction and much more attention to User Interface (UI) functionality.

CVS integration is the one thing that keeps pulling me back to Eclipse, so I'm really glad to hear the VCS subsystem is being re-worked (maybe 'replaced' is more accurate). Check out the screenshots, looks like good stuff. I hope better Subversion support is not far behind.

Via Roman Strobl and John Jullion-Ceccarelli