Laura's Box of Chocolates

It's here. Opening Day for OpenSolaris. It started nearly 18 years ago as hushed whispers between Solaris engineers, or in the huddled masses of usenet groups. Then as 3 years of speculation in mainstream press. Then 9 months ago “tonic”got started and the pilot went to work. Planning, talking, blogging,debating, sharing, educating, cajoling, participating.

And today, after OpenSolaris.org was officially “launched” (or should I say when the 12:01 EDT Press embargo lifted?) it was business as usual. The people “in” the community came to work. Just like every Tuesday.  Did we need an embargo to mark the event? Maybe we did. Like the proverbial tree...

Everybody wants the story first, as if it is frozen in time. Not this story. Nearly 150 blogs from engineers participating in OpenSolaris greet you when you visit the community. Conversations are beginning, relationships already forming. The FUN has begun. By now there's been a few bugs found. Stephen Harpster sent an email to the team a few days ago saying he was expecting, (even hoping) for that. Because when you do something this great, you want to keep improving it—and keep it growing.

Why Open Source Solaris?

For the opportunity. Sure. That works.

But pull aside someone who puts back code into the source base, and the gleam in their eye doesn't say "for the opportunity."  It says "Because We Can".

And that's why I'm here. I join OpenSolaris with a hearty HELLO WORLD.

Hello to a modern, authentic way of connecting with friends, with experts, with heroes.

Learn to run faster, jump higher.

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