OpenCSW

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 supporting projects in porting to Solaris. The core of the project form the CSW packages ( Community SoftWare ). As of October 2012 over 3600 packages in SVR4 format are available for Solaris 10. As far as possible, the packets for both Sparc and x86 versions available and each contain 32 and 64 bit. Still exist historical catalog, but is updated only sporadically for Solaris 8 and 9. The packages are managed with " pkgutil " and can be installed and updated in one step with dependencies.

History of CSW packages

The name comes from the Sun CSW staff Alan DuBoff and was found after a discussion on comp.unix.solaris. Then in 2002 Philip Brown has taken the initiative to hunt for maintainers of packages that were then hosted at Blastwave.

In August 2008, escalated a dispute between the owner of the brand name " Blast Wave" Dennis Clarke and Philip Brown in consequence Clarke put all visible to the outside data of the project. As a result, was founded by a majority of the active maintainer OpenCSW and continued as a Fork. With the closure of Blast Wave in September 2012 CSW packages are offered only by OpenCSW.