CSW - About CSW packages for Solaris

About CSW

OpenCSW.org is a community effort to build and distribute binary packages (CSW, aka "Community SoftWare" packages) for production-grade Solaris releases. Please see our Core Principles document, for a more in-depth description of the principles behind our packaging efforts.

We added "Open" to our organizational name name, to indicate that the packages will always be freely "open and available to use" by anyone. There will never be a cost to use them, or copy them. Additionally, it is our goal (although we arent there yet), that all packages will have publically open and easily reproducible build frameworks.

Between 2002 and August 2008, CSW packages were being hosted at blastwave.org. In August, we changed our name and domain name. If you are interested in the specifics of why, you may see see our history page