OpenCSW

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OpenCSW is an association under Article 60-79 of the Swiss Civil Code in Greifensee, Zurich. The aim of the association is to create freely available packages for Solaris and to support projects with porting to Solaris. The CSW packages (Community Software) form the core of the project . As of October 2012, there are over 3,600 packages in SVR4 format for Solaris 10. As far as possible, the packages are available for both Sparc and x86 and contain versions in 32 and 64 bit. Historical catalogs still exist for Solaris 8 and 9, but they are only updated sporadically. The packages are managed with "pkgutil" and can be installed and updated in one step with dependencies.

History of the CSW packages

The name CSW comes from the Sun employee Alan DuBoff and was found on comp.unix.solaris after a discussion. Then in 2002 Philip Brown took the initiative and looked for maintainers for packages that were then hosted at Blastwave .

In August 2008 a dispute between the owner of the brand name "Blastwave" Dennis Clarke and Philip Brown escalated as a result of which Clarke deleted all externally visible data of the project. As a result, the majority of the active maintainers founded OpenCSW and continued it as a fork. With the closure of Blastwave in September 2012, CSW packages are only offered by OpenCSW.

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credentials

  1. ^ OpenCSW: To Upstream Maintainers . Retrieved October 15, 2013.
  2. Alan DuBoff on comp.unix.solaris about the history of CSW. Retrieved August 1, 2012 .
  3. Phil Brown called on comp.unix.solaris "Sign up to maintain packages here" on comp.unix.solaris. Retrieved October 5, 2012 .
  4. Phil Brown on comp.unix.solaris "Global mirror sites needed". Retrieved September 29, 2012 .
  5. Quarrels about the Solaris repository Blastwave. Heise Open, August 8, 2008, accessed January 21, 2009 .
  6. CSW History. Retrieved January 21, 2009 .