Songbird Blog » OpenSolaris http://blog.songbirdnest.com Play music. Play the Web. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:55:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Conference round-up, builds, and distributions http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/12/14/conference-round-up-builds-and-distributions/ http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/12/14/conference-round-up-builds-and-distributions/#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:44:27 +0000 stevel http://blog.songbirdnest.com/?p=751 For our Songbird blog readers who may not read Planet Mozilla or my personal blog.  I spent a few days last week in Mountain View for FOSSCamp, the Ubuntu Developer Summit, the Mozilla Add-ons Open House, and the first ever Add-on-Con.  Besides reinforcing just how much I hate Bay Area rush hour commuting, I had a great time meeting folks and talking about interesting topics such as getting Songbird into Ubuntu (at UDS), and web service media-oriented mashups (at Add-on-Con).  I won’t repeat everything here, but if you’re interested in reading more, here are some quick-links to my writeups on the various events:

Congrats to the fine folks at Canonical, Ubuntu, Mozilla, & Add-on-Con for hosting some great events.  I’ve uploaded photos to our Flickr stream (Add-on-con here, and Mozilla Open House here)

My thoughts on Ubuntu & Songbird got dugg, which led me to a couple of pages on Ubuntu’s site, including their Brainstorm page with some interesting thoughts on better GNOME/Songbird integration as well as a great community help page on downloading and installing Songbird on Ubuntu.

Speaking of distributions, this is probably as good a time as any to list some of our great community and contributed builds that have been kicked off since we launched 1.0.. so here they are (in no particular order);

For anyone looking to build Songbird on your own distro or OS, you can grab 1.0 final source tarballs for Songbird and its upstream vendor dependencies at our Contributed Builds page.  There are also links there with instructions on building the dependencies and Songbird… as as always, definitely drop by our IRC channel for any help or questions you may have.

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updated: added links to SPARC builds!

Anyone who knows me knows that OpenSolaris is near and dear to my heart, so I was really psyched when Alfred Peng started porting Songbird over to OpenSolaris. For all the nitty gritty details, check out bug 7800 to see the code review, patches, and comments flying back and forth.

Shortly after we cut 0.5, Alfred put together binaries for Songbird 0.5 final and assembled them into a nice binary package as well as a tarball for us. We’re proud to say these are the first community-contributed builds of Songbird (and Alfred’s work and patches are being reviewed and committed into trunk for future builds). Alfred’s work should also help enable ports to other *nix systems such as BSD, so I’m looking forward to a BSD contributed build someday as well.

Until we get a proper contributed builds section up (should be coming soon with a revamped developer centre/wiki), I’m blogging these here.

Without further ado…

For the curious, the x86 tarball was built on Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) build 80 (snv_80) with Sun Studio 11, while the x86 binary package was built on snv_87 with Sun Studio 11. The SPARC builds (both tarball & pkg) were built on snv_76 with Sun Studio 11.

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