This was a session from last night on the state of software. The updates were done in 5 minutes, hence the term "lightning".

Here are my notes:

State of:

Project GlassFish 

• Java EE 5 (note jump in versioning of J2EE).
• http://blogs.sun.com/theAquarium
• http://java.sun.com/javaee/theAquarium

GNOME

• Very poorly presented. Some updates on the GNOME conference in Spain. A tiny mention of Summer of Code projects from Google and the fact that no women applied.

SQLite - small SQL embeddable engine

• serverless, zero config, fully ACID
• load DLLs or shared libs
• Full-text search
• Cellphones, MP3, etc.
• <=230KiB
• Licensed under Public domain (not sure why?)

Eclipse

• Gaining momentum - the foundation is a 501c6 type organization.
• Over 60 projects
• 17 strategic members (250k per year)
• Eclipse Callisto - 10 projects with coordinated releases
• 7 countries, 7 million lines of code
• Modular architecture

Project django

• Python web framework, kinda like Ruby on Rails
• Comes from existing project from middle of Kansas!
• Created in 2003, oss'ed in 2005
• Internationalization framework
• Auth backends
• Javascript serializer
• Refined API
• Version 0.95
• Effort to make unicode throughout
• Django Admin v 2.0
• Benchmarks? supposedly better than Ruby on Rails

MySQL

• MySQL 5

• Stored procedures
• Triggers
• Views (update-able)
• New ODBC driver
• New PHP driver
• Successor to DB DSesigner 4

• MySQL 5.1

• Partitioning
• On Disk attributes for cluster
• Events
• FullText enhancements
• others...
• Storage engines: Solid, PBXT, Falcon, improved MyISAM

Planet

• planet.<some project>.org
• mozilla, debian, gentoo, inkscape, postgresql, etc.
• planet 2.0 released today.

Annodex.net

• Minor update, but nothing that you can't get from their site.
• Allows for temporal tags - say, a link to an interview (audio or video) but at the 21st minute of it.

Gentoo in 5 minutes (oxymoron?)

• Overview
• Very new packages
• Install time 4-8 hours with stage 3
• 15 minutes with liveCD...where's the point in doing Gentoo?
• Something new called "eselect"
• 14 projects from Google SoC

OpenSolaris

• 200 sponsor requests
• 4 non-sun distros
• Over 30 projects
• Working on:

• Installer
• man pages
• OS/Net test suites
• SCM: Mercurial and Subversion
• Bug management
• Governance

Openoffice.org

• 6 years old
• 67.5 million downloads, more than 70 languages
• Major Gov't use and promotion (France). Emphasis is on ODF

State of the Linux Kernel

• In its 15th year
• 1725 different people
• 24567 patches
• 12% did two patches
• 45% did 1 patch
• 20179 different files
• 2 million Lines of Code added
• 1.1 million lines of code removed
• Total kernel size 7 million Lines of Code
• 2.81 patches per hour