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The new OpenSolaris-branded distribution was launched at CommunityOne (PR, GetIt); together with efforts like OpenSolaris.COM and TheObservatory it is intended to help the users of OpenSolaris complementing the developer-focused OpenSolaris.ORG.
I think will see significant increased adoption of OpenSolaris in the next few months. Other trends that will help are the increased adoption of VirtualBox (home page, vb at TA, LinuxJournal Award), the new IPS package system, and more familiarization with features like ZFS, DTrace and IPS.
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Several people in GlassFish have started doing more things with OpenSolaris and we will track them through TA. Here are some useful initial pointers:
• Installing OpenSolaris on VB on MacOSX.
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I recently installed VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro and so far it runs very nicely. I think VB is going to become a very interesting solution and I already know of several people putting together useful images, so stay tuned on that front. In the meantime, a couple of recent news: yesterday there was a new VB 1.6.2 release that is mostly a bug fixing release (downloads, change log). VirtualBox works with Many Guest and Host OS; and, from the perspective of Sun, OpenSolaris is particularly interesting to Sun, and here is an article on OpenSolaris on VB. |
Added Most BSC entries related to VirtualBox can be found through the virtualbox tag.
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Ludo just posted an OpenDS Roadmap to the USERS alias. The latest OpenDS 1.0 builds (b12, b11, etc) are looking very good, so the plan is for a Milestone 1 within the next few days, a M2 in a month, and an official 1.0 release in May 2008 - which, by a coincidence, is also when J1 2008 happens :-) Check out the road map and provide feedback on all aspects, including critical issues in b12 and the initial cut at the OpenDS 2.0 features. |
I have not posted on OpenDS in a bit so here are some highlights I've noticed:
• Continued progress on documentation:
see a
Summary of 2007 Activity.
• Helping contributions: Wiki page on How to
Build and Run OpenDS
within
NetBeans
(also see Mark
and
Ludo
commentary).
• A lot of work on performance -
for example, see this note on
Search Performance.
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And, for extra points,
OpenDS and VirtualBox:
OpenDS on OpenSolaris on VirtualBox on MacOS X 10.5.2 on MacBook Pro.
Virtualization - Russian Dolls for geeks :-)
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Virtualization is important to everyone and developers are no exception. Sun has announced today the agreement to acquire innotek, the makers of VirtualBox, an Open Source virtualization software very well suited for desktop usage. Never heard of VirtualBox? Wondering what the relationship is with Sun's xVM hypervisor? answers it best on his blogSteve "Virtual" Wilson and Tim Marsland probably answer both questions the best. |
This probably sounds compelling to developers given VirtualBox' open source nature and its ability to handle just about any hosts and guests (listed here) you may require for your Java and Web 2.0 developments.
You're 17MB away from using the software and the website is www.virtualbox.org and is unrelated to this ;-)
