Blastwave

Blastwave.org is an organization which prepares and packages open source software for the Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system and also for operating system distributions based on OpenSolaris.

The objective of the Blastwave(r) project is to allow Solaris(tm) users and OpenSolaris(tm) 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 pkg-get tool. The software is also being made available in IPS ( Image Package Service ) format in compliance with future looking advanced software management technology in OpenSolaris. This process includes a testing stage, open evaluation and bug reporting and final public release to corporate held primary mirror sites.

The Blastwave(r) Software Stack ( simply “the 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 Blastwave build stack is a set of servers that houses the build environment. This stack allows members of the Solaris and OpenSolaris Community to gain access to both tools and expertise such that they may build software in accordance with standards. To date there are some 1,800 software packages for both the SPARC and x86/AMD architectures that support Solaris. The software is built to support Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 and Solaris 10. Solaris Nevada as well as Solaris Express Community Edition are not officially supported however the CSW software set is reported to work well. It should be noted that the 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.

OpenSolaris based distributions may also choose to use the Blastwave software set. BeleniX is an OpenSolaris Distribution with a Live CD (runs directly off the CD). It includes all the features of OpenSolaris and adds a whole variety of open source packages. It can be installed to the hard disk as well. BeleniX is free to use, modify and distribute. BeleniX includes the ability to install software from Blastwave and thus greatly extends the users access to a well established open source software stack.

External links and Mirror Sites

* [http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php Blastwave Software Catalog]
* [http://www.blastwave.org/ Blastwave Project Homepage]
* [http://www.sun.com/ Sun Microsystems]
* [http://www.opensolaris.org/ OpenSolaris]

* [http://blastwave.network.com/csw Blastwave Primary Software Mirror in California United States]
* [http://blastwave.network.com/OpenSolaris OpenSolaris Software Mirror in California United States]
* [http://blastwave.network.com/OpenSolaris/update OpenSolaris Updates in California United States]

* [http://blastwave.unix-center.net/csw/ Primary Software Mirror in Beijing China]
* [http://blastwave.unix-center.net/OpenSolaris OpenSolaris Software Mirror in Beijing China]
* [http://blastwave.unix-center.net/OpenSolaris/update/ OpenSolaris Software Updates in Beijing China]

* [http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/blastwave/ Blastwave Software Mirror in Prague Czech Republic]
* [http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/blastwave.org/ Blastwave Software Mirror in Bucharest Romania]
* [http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/csw Blastwave Software Mirror in Australia ]
* [http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/sun/csw Blastwave Software Mirror in Athens Greece]
* [http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/blastwave.org/csw Blastwave Software Mirror in Belgium]
* [http://blastwave.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/csw Blastwave Software Mirror in Erlangen Germany]
* [http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/blastwave Blastwave Software Mirror in Dublin Ireland]
* [http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/csw Blastwave Software Mirror in Zurich Switzerland]
* [http://www.iforceready.it/pub/blastwave/csw Blastwave Software Mirror in Milan Italy]
* [http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/blastwave Blastwave Software Mirror in University of Southern California]
* [http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/blastwave Blastwave Software Mirror in Georgia Institute of Technology]
* [http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/blastwave.org Blastwave Software Mirror in Perdue University]