4 more OpenSolaris reviews from the contest
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Kurchi Subhra Hazra,
Sun Campus
Ambassador at National Institute of
Technology, Durgapur, India, likes
what she sees in the "new kid of the block." She elegantly describes
live CD, what is does and what happened when she tried out OpenSolaris
2008.05 live CD. Kurchi explains the advantages she sees in OpenSolaris
and its evolving community. Check out her review here.
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 Kurchi Subhra Hazra
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 Blake Deville
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Blake
Deville from University of
Louisiana at Lafayette, USA, described his
OpenSolaris 2008.05 experiences from the lens of an administrator
familiar with Linux. He briefly glanced over the history, and compared
his installation and set-up steps against what he has experienced in
other Linux distributions. Blake's review is here. |
| In his
review, Avinash Joshi
from Amrita Vishwa
Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri
Campus, India, focused on the new features of OpenSolaris 2008.05,
requested a feature for enhancement and went over the details of how
the new OpenSolaris OS benefits him as a student. Check out his review
here. (Scroll
down to see the review if you happen to get formatting
issues in your favorite browser at the top section of his site.) |
 Avinash Joshi
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 Silveira Neto
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Jose Maria Silveira
Neto, Sun Campus Ambassador at Federal University of Ceará,
Brazil, focused on ZFS file system feature of OpenSolaris 2008.05 OS.
In his review,
Silveira experimented with corrputing the data in a
mirrored zpool (RAID-1) and demonstrated how the self-healing
characteristic of ZFS keeps the data intact. He concluded this review
with the steps administrators should take on the defective disk. In a
second
review, Silveira showed the tricks of turning on colors in an
OpenSolaris terminal. |
