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

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!

Other day, I was trying to install a software that I've downloaded and oops, it was an iso file. As I didn't wanted to burn a cd, I tried to mount the file. But how can I do that on Solaris?

After questioning the oracle (Google) I found an answer! Use the “lofiadm” command to create a block device for the image and then use “mount” to mount it as a filesystem, as the following:

Make the block device with “lofiadm”:
lofiadm -a /path/to/your/image.iso /dev/lofi/block_device_number

Mount the image as a read-only filesystem:
mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/block_device_number /mountpoint

It's important that you use the full path to both the iso file and the mount point, otherwise it won't work.

I found that information at spiralbound.net

The first milestone of Project Indiana is now available - called OpenSolaris Developer Preview. This preview is a x86-based LiveCD install image containing some new and emerging OpenSolaris technologies from several projects on opensolaris.org. You can acces the Project Indiana page here and get more information about it.

Timothy Morgan wrote an article for The Unix Guardian, you can read it here.

The revolution is comming!