2008.05: Who's got it

Well, I don't know exactly who's running a copy of 2008.05, but I do know what IP addresses have interacted with pkg.opensolaris.org from the server logs. I used MaxMind's GeoIP Lite to map these back to countries, and Google's chart API to make a little map:

If 2008.05 is your first experience with the technology developed at opensolaris.org, welcome. (You're not alone—the map suggests that, in many places, there might even be a fellow user nearby.) Don't have it? Try a convenient mirror site.

Maybe we need a TechDays in Greenland next year?

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Mail droppage

It looks like I missed making a configuration change last update, and opensolaris.org has been dropping my mail messages for the past week as a result. Sorry—if you're waiting for mail from me, you may need to ping me again. Otherwise, I'll try to reinsert myself in various threads...

CommunityOne: here and there

Sunday I spent at Moscone, teaching laptops and projectors to get along. Saturday, Nathaniel, Benjamin, and I dropped in for lunch at the Developer Summit. I managed to talk with a few people before the boys found large whacking sticks, and then it seemed best to drive to Pescadero for some beach time.

I'll be busy for the morning of CommunityOne. For Rich's keynote, I'll be running some of the less violent demos. Almost immediately after that, lead modernizer David Comay and I will be going into more detail in our session

S297399 Getting Started with OpenSolaris™; New Features & Building OpenSolaris™ Packages; 11:00 a.m., Moscone South/Esplanade 300.

I'm hoping to have some time for questions during the session but, if not, I'll be circulating during the afternoon and happy to talk to people about 2008.05, image packaging, or whatever. And, of course, there will be time to talk at the party after the day's sessions. In any case, I should be easy to spot: I have a new tie.

I'm told you can still register on-site—it's not too late.

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2008.05: More ways to get it

As I did for the preview releases, I'll collect links to mirror sites here. These will also get links on the various download pages out there.

Bart and I just finished updating the package repository with the new packages we'd received the past few weeks, and that means 2008.05 is out the door. (Thanks to everybody who tried the release candidate, filed a bug, shuffled a package, wrote or proofread a document, or just spent energy anticipating the bits.) You can get the ISO image, suitable for burning to a 700 MiB CD or immediate use in virtual environment, directly from the following locations:

• via HTTP from dlc.sun.com, and
• via HTTP from genunix.org,
• via HTTP from ftp.df.lth.se,
• via FTP from ftp.df.lth.se,
• via HTTP from mirrors.xservers.ro,
• via HTTP from gulus.usherbrooke.ca,
• via FTP from ftp.nluug.nl,
• via HTTP from ftp.nluug.nl,
• via rsync from ftp.nluug.nl,
• via FTP from ftp.surfnet.nl,
• via HTTP from ftp.surfnet.nl,
• via rsync from ftp.surfnet.nl, or
• via BitTorrent.

Reading the logs, and talking with some of our mirror sites, we know we all served out a lot of downloads for the previews; if you're interested in being a mirror, please let me know. (2008.05 remains completely redistributable.) We're using a bigger download complex this time, but every mirror helps.

If you already downloaded and installed Preview 2, it's more complete, easier, and probably faster to update directly using image packaging: see the update guidelines. These instructions involve a small script to safely update a clone of your installed system, and then switch to that on a system reboot. (If you were running Preview 1, you should update that to Preview 2, and then go on to 2008.05.)

Update 1: My thanks to Tobias Lundquist, who's once again mirrored via FTP and HTTP (Internet 2) in Sweden.

Update 2: My thanks to Luca, who's put up an HTTP mirror in Romania.

Update 3: Simon Valiquette has put up an HTTP mirror (Internet 2) at the Université de Sherbrooke in Québec, Canada. Merci, Simon.

Update 4: Bart Muijzer has arranged for mirrors by the Netherlands Unix Users Group (NLUUG) and surfnet.nl. Thanks, Bart.

These links are for the gzipped CD image, which contains the 12 "primary languages". It installs quite a bit faster, particularly on systems with slower CPUs. There is also an LZMA-compressed image, which has localization support for 42 languages, including those primary ones. It's available from dlc.sun.com, genunix.org, ftp.df.lth.se, mirrors.xservers.ro, and as a torrent. (Consult the language lists for specifics.)

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Live chat on #os200805

We're talking about OpenSolaris 2008.05 over on IRC, using the #os200805, from now until 2 p.m. Pacific Time. If you haven't got an IRC client, you can use freenode's Java applet, which worked great (until Danek kickbanned me). Enter a nickname, and then ask some questions.

Apparently the load from 60 000 users blew out the chat system, so we moved to IRC.