Sun HPC Campus Ambassador @ CESUP/UFRGS Glaucio Souza

OpenSolaris 2008.11 is available to download.

The OpenSolaris 2008.11 OS is a point of integration for the installation, desktop, and package management system projects on OpenSolaris.org.

Today, the OpenSolaris 2008.11 LiveCD is available with the following feature updates:

 »  ZFS Time Slider and Songbird
 »  Suspend/Resume and CPU power management
 »  Distribution Constructor and Prototype Automated Installer
 »  WebStack with 64-bit MySQL, CherryPy, and DTrace for Ruby
 »  GNOME 2.24, OpenOffice 3.0, and Firefox 3
 »  Many F/OSS apps added, including top, sudo and emacs
 »  700 additional man pages and Package Manager online help

Click here to watch the OpenSolaris 2008.11 launch videos.

More information at http://opensolaris.org and http://www.opensolaris.com

Tomorrow, April 16th, Porto Alegre OpenSolaris User Group together with Sun and Free Software Association will present the OpenSolaris Day.

In this event, we'll have Sun Campus Ambassadors Tech Talks about OpenSolaris, HPC, Java and another related projects.

This event will happen one day before the Free Software Forum, called here FISL, that will take place at Porto Alegre - Brazil.

For more informaion visit  http://opensolaris.org/os/project/poaosug/events/osday

A new BeleniX release is avaliable.

"BeleniX is an OpenSolaris Distribution with a Live CD (runs directly off the CD). It includes all the features of OpenSolaris and adds a whole variety of open source packages. It can be installed to harddisk as well. BeleniX is free to use, modify and distribute."

You can download it at BeleniX website.

This is a very good distribution and it can be installed into a usb pen drive! Try it out!

Last Thursday, March 20th, Porto Alegre OpenSolaris User Group had its monthly meeting at CESUP (Yes! Now we have a good place for our meetings!).

We discussed about our future meetings, how they will be performed, how to manage our group website and materials avaliable on it. Also, we talked about two great events that will take place at Porto Alegre in the next month. On April 16th, we will have OpenSolaris Day and on April 17, 18 and 19th, FISL 9.0. Like last year, our user group will participate and interact with the open source community and everyone interested to learn about opensolaris. If you have the oportunity, come to visit us.

For the grand finale, here is a picture of the group members that could attend our meeting:

We also had two participants using skype, Rafael Vanoni (from Dublin!) and Lucas Torri (from Florianópolis). They are in the photo too, at the first computer, but we forgot to turn the monitor :-)

Thanks folks, until next meeting!