OpenSolaris Student Pack - Docs Delivered
Hey, we've just recently wrapped up a set of doc deliverables for an OpenSolaris Student Pack that is going to be distributed at various campus events this fall (back-to-school special :-). The student pack has an updated Live CD and an accompanying DVD. The DVD includes the VirtualBox installers for Linux, Windows, and Mac, and a pre-configured 2008.05 OpenSolaris virtual disk image (VDI) that is ready to go. The VDI includes a bunch of developer tools / environments, so it eliminates the need to go looking for these packages. This has got to be the simplest, most straightforward, and lowest cost way to get OpenSolaris running, so hopefully, students will give it a whirl.
Oh, and the accompanying docs on the DVD include the specific instructions necessary to install VirtualBox from the DVD and configure it to use the VDI. (Wish I'd had this when I started. :-) The docs also feature an admin guide targeting the laptop user. This doc has been conspicuous by its absence, but now that we've got a baseline, we'll develop it a bit more and provide with the November OpenSolaris release. There is also a nice set of developer docs to help the student get going with OpenSolaris, Web Stack, DTrace, SQUID, and NetBeans. I'm anxious to get these into students' hands and get folks looking at OpenSolaris.
So there is no OpenSolaris VirtualBox binaries then ? That seems very strange.
Posted by Darren Moffat on August 19, 2008 at 07:58 AM MDT #
Hi Allan,
Is there an ISO available somewhere? I would like to have one :-)
Thanks,
Amit
Posted by Amit on August 20, 2008 at 10:07 PM MDT #
Hey Darren, I'm pretty sure the DVD just includes the VirtualBox install programs, but I could be off base here. The idea is that you install VirtualBox from the DVD and then use the pre-configured OpenSolaris VDI file. I went looking for the files to confirm what is included, but couldn't find them in their previous location (I think RE is in the midst of creating the DVD), so couldn't validate one way or the other.
Posted by Alan McClellan on August 21, 2008 at 04:34 PM MDT #
Amit, I think they'll soon be updating the downloadable iso from the OpenSolaris sites with the new spin of 2008.05 iso used for the Student Pack.
Posted by Alan McClellan on August 21, 2008 at 04:36 PM MDT #
How do go about a couple of copies of the student pack for my students to use in the lab?
Posted by Robert Batzinger on September 16, 2008 at 11:17 AM MDT #