Blastwave.org

Blastwave.org is a privately-held corporation specialized in building and supporting open source software packages for Oracle Solaris, as well as various operating system distributions based on OpenSolaris. As its primary product, it provides an independent software repository for Solaris in a similar manner to the repositories for Linux distributions.

The objective of the Blastwave project is to allow Solaris and OpenSolaris users to freely have pre-packaged open source software in accordance with specified standards. Software is in SVR4-compliant package format and ready to run via the simple package utilities such as the open source Pkgutil tool. OpenSolaris-based distributions may also choose to use the Blastwave software set, such as BeleniX and SchilliX and AuroraUX.

To date, there are some 2,000 software packages for both the SPARC and x86/AMD architectures that support Solaris. The software is built to support Solaris 8, 9, and 10. Solaris Nevada as well as Solaris Express Community EDition are not officially supported, however the CSW software set is reported to work well. Older Sun hardware architectures are officially supported, as well as the latest generation Sun UltraSPARC hardware and multi-core AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon implementations.

The "Blastwave Software Stack" is a commercial-grade software service product. Software packages are continually being updated and released to the public via the Blastwave mirrors. There is also an internal tree simply called "testing" and it is used for QA processes before a package enters the new packages stage. The addition of Solaris-native virtualization technology under the brandname "Solaris Containers" allows the Blastwave stack to function within Solaris 8, 9, 10 native zones. This feature ensures that Solaris customers may retain their legacy software investment and also implement the latest LAMP stack features within those Solaris virtual hosts. See Customer Snapshot: Technology Blastwave.

The Blastwave build stack is a set of servers that houses the build environment. This stack allows members of the Solaris and OpenSolaris communities to gain access to both tools and expertise such that they may build software in accordance with set standards. Release is performed continuously and to many mirror sites world wide.

See also

• OpenCSW — a fork of Blastwave

External links

• Blastwave Project Homepage
• Blastwave (The Observatory, blogs.sun.com)

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