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Apps of Steel Challenge - Chance to Win a Toshiba OpenSolaris Laptop

Wednesday Apr 15, 2009

Sun just launched the OpenSolaris Apps of Steel Challenge. This is a great opportunity to learn about developing and porting packages. Then use your talents and participate for a chance to win a Toshiba OpenSolaris laptop! The winning packages will also be showcased at the OpenSolaris Install Lounge at CommunityOne West, in San Francisco on June 1-3rd, 2009.

Apart from the prizes and recognition, contributing OpenSolaris packages benefits the entire OpenSolaris community by building out the package eco-system. Need help getting started? Check the OpenSolaris Software Porter's Community.

Packages must be submitted by 12:00 pm midnight PDT on May 8, 2009. Packages will be judged on the following criteria:

Complexity of the Port
Use of unique OpenSolaris features, such as ZFS, DTrace, SMF, and FMA
Number of dependent packages ported
Usefulness to the end user

For all the details, please see the Official OpenSolaris Apps of Steel Challenge Rules and Restrictions.

Good luck!

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Posted at 10:54AM Apr 15, 2009 by Gary Serda in Sun
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OHAC Gets Better With Contributions From Student

Sunday Jan 25, 2009

Lalith Suresh a student at the Malaviya National Institute of Technology in India, just contributed his second bug fix to Open High Availability Cluster. This is a great example of the kind of contributions that students are making to the open source world.

Both of Lailith's contributions will be included in the next OHAC release. Check out the blog by the engineer who sponsored these bug fixes for all the details..

Great job Lalith!

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Posted at 12:38PM Jan 25, 2009 by Gary Serda in Personal
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New OpenSolaris Newsletter

Friday Oct 24, 2008

The OpenSolaris Ignite is the new monthly newsletter by, for, and about the OpenSolaris community. OpenSolaris Ignite features news, how-to articles, tech tips and reviews. This is a great resource for students using or developing on OpenSolaris. Check it out.

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