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OpenSolaris Install Fest

Hello everyone,

For some reason, this post was supposed to be on this blog a month ago, but I forgot all about it :) Anyways.

I recently conducted a Software Freedom Day Celebration at the Department of Computer Science, Delhi University. This consisted primarily of an OpenSolaris Install Fest. For the demo part of this event I used Virtualbox to install OpenSolaris on a windows machine. Since the concept of virtualization itself would naturally stimulate the interests of young Computer Science students, I decided to make the first part of the presentation about Virtualization. Of course, the complex topic that it is, I tried to take it step-by step, and introduce it only to the level of detail that was appropriate for the installation that was being demonstrated.

Then I proceeded with the demo, which consisted of installation of Virtualbox, and it's usage; and the installation of OpenSolaris itself. All this was done on the laptop of a volunteer. (Remember, this was an install fest, so there were other machines available :) While the installation was going on, I introduced the various features of OpenSolaris that make is the most advanced operating system in the world. The installation completed with a demo of the working of the operating system. The other people installing the same simultaneously ran into some minor troubles. (like inserting the wrong disk :D ) The session ended with a briefing about SFD itself, and talks of OSUM and Sun club. I also distributed several OpenSolaris Starter kit DVDs as a part of the same. The 40 attendees left satisfied with the knowledge they had of Open Source Software, OpenSolaris, and virtualization, and of course, the installations on their machines.

Posted at 04:37PM Oct 16, 2008 by Aadhar Mittal in Sun  |  Comments[1]