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Nominate OpenSolaris on SourceForge.net

The 2008 Community Choice awards at SourceForge are up for grabs. We hope you have used OpenSolaris and appreciated the efforts of the OpenSolaris project (and the team).
Some of the more interesting (??) nomination choices we hope the community stays away from are : Most Likely to Be Ambiguously Accused of Patent Violation (NO!),  Most Likely to Get Users Sued (NO, NO) . Of course, if you think this is the  Most Likely to Be the Next $1B Acquistion project, we can't complain . But seriously,  please take a moment to nominate OpenSolaris. Login to SourceForge and click on the image below to go directly to the nomination page. 

Posted at 11:01PM Jun 08, 2008 by Jyothi Srinath in Sun  | 

Opensolaris on Virtual Box

Here's a screenshot of OpenSolaris 2008.05 release running under VirtualBox on Windows. Follow the docs for a super-easy install.

Download Virtual Box here and OpenSolaris 2008.05 here. The documentation is here - Virtual Box documentation and Getting Started with OpenSolaris 2008.05

Posted at 11:00PM Jun 05, 2008 by Jyothi Srinath in Sun  | 

Getting ready for OpenSolaris 2008.05

I am getting really behind with blogging but there have been many other things going on lately. We have been busy getting our deliverables ready for OpenSolaris release in May (this was named OpenSolaris Developer Preview 1& 2 in its previous avatars).

The Getting Started document for the OpenSolaris may release which includes information on Installation, Image Packaging System (IPS) and Upgrading and Managing your Boot Environments is out for review. There's still work to be done here and we are looking forward to inputs from the community. If you have been playing with IPS packages and have some information that you would like to share, let us know.

Read the document and send us your feedback before April 25th, 2008!

There have been many lively discussions on the various aliases regarding the forthcoming OpenSolaris release in May. Jump in by subscribing to pkg-discuss and indiana-discuss aliases on the OpenSolaris site.

The OpenSolaris Developer Summit is being held in Santa Cruz on May 3rd and 4th, there's CommunityOne at Moscone Center in Sanfrancisco on May 5th and JavaOne at the same venue from May 6th to May 9th.Sun is offering free registration  to students for JavaOne, read about it and sign up here. Connect with folks attending CommunityOne and JavaOne on Facebook and MySpace.

So, for all you OpenSource enthusiasts out there, sign up and join the fun.

Posted at 10:39AM Apr 15, 2008 by Jyothi Srinath in Sun  |  Comments[2]

Installing OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2

This blog comes to you from a Acer Ferrari laptop running the OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 software. Go to the Indiana project page on the OpenSolaris site to learn more about this distribution of OpenSolaris. It uses the Image packaging System(IPS) software to publish, download and manage
packages in the IPS repository. Read more about IPS on the IPS project page on OpenSolaris.

If you would like to try the OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2, download it here and burn it on a CD/DVD. This is a LiveCD. Boot from the CD and try it out before you install OpenSolaris on your system.The installation is very simple, see some of the screenshots below.

(To learn how to burn the Preview 2 iso image  onto a CD/DVD from a laptop, see my previous blog "Copying an iso image to a CD from Solaris".)

If you had installed the Preview 1 release and would like to update your system, the update instructions are available here. 

Try it out and let us know your thoughts and comments. 

Posted at 09:47AM Feb 21, 2008 by Jyothi Srinath in Sun  | 

Sun Device Detection Tool 2.0

I ran the Sun Device Detection Tool 2.0 tool on my Toshiba M5 with SXDE 9/07 installed on it to try out the new version of the tool. I didn't have to download the tool unlike the previous version (See my earlier blog). It runs directly from the browser. The system requirements for running this tool and information about the tool can be found here.

This tool tells you whether the Solaris OS installed on your system supports the devices found on your x86/x64 system. The SXDE Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) is here. Here's the output from my M5.

Posted at 11:03AM Nov 05, 2007 by Jyothi Srinath in Sun  |  Comments[1]