Where is SUN going with OpenSource ? An interview with Simon Phipps

Posted in OpenSolaris, OpenSource, Solaris & OpenSolaris on April 30th, 2008 by Michal Bielicki

I always like to read where corporations running FOSS projects I am involved in want to take them. If this is of interest for you, here is an Interview with Simon Phipps about SUNs vision for its OpenSource future

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MilaX 0.3 released

Posted in Uncategorized on April 25th, 2008 by Michal Bielicki

Changes: this release is based on Nevada 85 and includes 99% of
b85-drivers, Gtk-Terminal, Netsurf, gFtp, Sylpheed, and gPicview.
Beaver, Torsmo, and fbxkb were added, and Dillo and aterm were removed.
ZFSinstall is now included. /sbin/sh was changed to ksh93.

You can find MilaX at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/milax

MilaX now a Project under the distrubutions community

Posted in OpenSolaris, OpenSource, Solaris & OpenSolaris on April 25th, 2008 by Michal Bielicki

Today we unhid the MilaX pages on www.opensolaris.org. We are now a project within the Distribution community and you can find us at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/milax.
All discussions, bug reports, feature requests etc please to distribution-discuss@opensolaris.org. We are looking for help with new features and even more minimalisation so if you are interested, let us know, we are in the process of planning and creating a repository and all other required tools, if you want to help with anything, you are most welcome.

MilaX is a small size Live CD distribution which runs completely off a
CD or a USB pendrive. It is based on Solaris Nevada and includes its
basic features. What originally started as an experiment to see how
much Solaris software could fit in miniCD eventually became a
full-fledged OpenSolaris distribution. MilaX also it is possible to use
as Rescue-CD. It can be installed on storage media with small
capacities, like bootable business cards, USB flash drives, various
memory cards, and Zip drives. MilaX is free to use, modify and
distribute.

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OpenSolaris Developers Conference 2008, 25-27th of June in Prague, come visit ..

Posted in Fairs, Conferences & Summits, OpenSolaris, OpenSource, Solaris & OpenSolaris, SunStudio on April 16th, 2008 by Michal Bielicki