Welcome to the OpenCSW wiki

OpenCSW aims to produce an easy to use open source software distribution installable on top of Solaris and Solaris-based systems, developed by a transparent and democratic community. OpenCSW is dedicated to working closely with upstream projects to improve portability of open source software.

You're welcome to contribute to the wiki (start with "Join the wiki" in the menu on the left).

Project resources

Getting started quickly

To get started quickly please use this to bootstrap your system with pkgutil:

# pkgadd -d http://get.opencsw.org/now

The above is for Solaris 10, for Solaris 9 please see this page for more details.

After you have installed a package check out the package documentation index to get documentation for your packages and tips & tricks.

News

2011-07-16
Summercamp 2011 in Kiel
2011-02-22
Release "Dublin" open for topic discussion
2011-01-13
Wintercamp 2010 in Dublin
2010-12-10
Annual Meeting 2010 (incl. vote for a new board)
2010-11-12
Packaging shared libraries
2010-11-09
Checkpkg error tags
2010-06-21
Summer Camp 2010
2010-06-08
Koha (integrated library system)
2010-04-20
Sun X11 RE-integration project started
2010-04-18
GNU coreutils and CSWgnulink-removal project started
2010-03-12
CSW X11 integration project started
2010-03-05
Porting FAQ, Adding Gnulib
2010-02-05
ImageMagick 64 Bit
2010-02-04
"Alternatives" project
2010-02-02
Releases and staging (unstable, testing, stable) proposal
2010-01-31
Perl 5.10.x update project
2010-01-22
Winter Camp 2009 - the third IRL meeting (minutes)
2009-08-21
Summer Camp 2009 - the second IRL meeting (minutes)
2008-12-06
OpenCSW Association founded
2008-12-06
IRL meeting in Switzerland, December 6th 2008
2008
cswclassutils - this package makes it easy to support common tasks like SMF in your packages (now updated with mGAR v2 info)
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