Thanks to my friends at the Dutch UNIX Users Group (NLUUG), the OpenSolaris 2008.11 release is now available from the NLUUG archives. Here's the access info (from their announcing email).
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/opensolaris http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/opensolaris rsync://ftp.nluug.nl/opensolarisftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/opensolaris http://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/opensolaris rsync://ftp.surfnet.nl/opensolaris Download statistics can be found at: http://ftp.nluug.nl/.statistics
ALL current and future OpenSolaris releases will be made available the same way.
Recently there was an internal poll amongst the OS Ambassadors to learn what reasons people have to choose Solaris on our own x86 hardware. As opposed to other Operating Systems like Linux or Windows. I thought it would be educational to share what's come out of this poll.
Reasons to choose Solaris on SUN x86 hardware (in no particular order):
Yesterday, 1:05pm, I got the call from the nursery home: my Oma had passed away. Quietly, alone, in her sleep. She reached the age of 100 years and 10+ months.
Oma had been in bed for the past week. She no longer wanted to live. I am so glad and so grateful that I went to visit her every day and that every time she knew it was me.
I have the memories. And loads of pictures. All is like it's meant to be.
In one of my latest blogs entries I promised there was more great news to come about the distribution of OpenSolaris 2008.05 in The Netherlands. Well, here goes:
The June edition of c't Magazine has an article 'Solaris contra Linux' in which OpenSolaris is tested and described, and comes with a bootable DVD that carries OpenSolaris 2008.05 (amongst a pile of other software). The direct link is here -- sorry, it's in Dutch only.
c't Magazine is distributed in a large (tens of thousands) amount of copies in Holland and Germany. The idea of distributing OpenSolaris with this magazine was born at the NLUUG Spring Conference and Menno Lageman, co-Sunnie, Solaris resource management guru and NLOSUG core member worked with the people of c't Magazine to create the bootable DVD. Again, this shows what good relationships, sense of community and several hours of personal time from Menno can lead to!
From the whispersuite: Menno might blog about this in the near future...
NLOSUG will take a short summer break but behind the screens we keep going.
Happy (summer)hacking!