The life of a CA Copenhagen Campus Connection

Wednesday May 13, 2009

Last week (in the beginning of May) a couple of developers successfully ported Virtualbox for FreeBSD. This is substantial because there isn't currently any proper virtualization software for FreeBSD, so within the FreeBSD community - this is deemed even bigger than the porting of ZFS to FreeBSD. :-)

The Virtualbox people has made a nice draft on how to port Virtualbox, if you feel inspired to look at the procedure.

The original announcement-mail to the Virtualbox developer mailliste can be found here


Thursday May 07, 2009

Thursday April 30th OpenSolaris and NetBeans technology evangelist Roman Strobl paid us a visit in Denmark and did a super talk on the NetBeans IDE - about 22 people showed up despite the fantastic weather and the pre-May 1st celebrations - and Roman did a whole lot of demo'ing of NetBeans - which left people very quiet and attentive throughout the talk. One of the attendees were actually in the middle of implementing a working git repository plug-in for NetBeans!


After about 1 hour we had a small break, in which there was served bagel-sandwiches and refreshments - Sun had also provided for a lot of free stuff for the attendees - t-shirts, coffee mugs, OpenSolaris 2008.11 DVDs and Getting Started on OpenSolaris mini-books which swiftly disappeared.

After the break there was a small presentation on HackLab, which is a new initiative in Denmark - trying to get people working together on larger (open source based) projects. We also talked a little about project Kenai. Afterwards a couple of us went to a local microbrewery called Bryggeriet right beside TIVOLI and continued the informal talking.

It was a really nice event. A big thanks to Roman for a splendid talk :-)