[Fwd: Re: [osol-mktg] How do users/ISVs use opensolaris?]

[Teresa Giacomini]

Hi Derek,

Can you help Moinak?  Are you the right person?  He's not quite ready to
announce to a broad group, hence the reason I did not copy I-Team...

T

Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> I'd like to announce on the lists when I have a proper LiveCD.
> This is still work in progress and needs some more days to
> stabilize.
> 
> One thing that has to be worked out is the logistics of posting
> the stuff. I am wondering if SourceForge is the proper place.
> Where do I put the downloadable iso image ?
> 
> Regards,
> Moinak.
> 
> Joe G (Joseph George) wrote:
> 
> 
>>Moinak:
>>
>>Looks like your blog caught some eyes. Why dont you make a posting on  
>>opensolaris-discuss and edu-discuss aliases?
>>
>>~Joe
>>
>>On 16-Aug-05, at 6:34 AM, Teresa Giacomini wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Looks like the word is out on the LiveCD.  If you are ready, I'd  
>>>suggest
>>>posting something on the edu-discuss at opensolaris.org list....
>>>
>>>T
>>>
>>>-------- Original Message --------
>>>Subject: Re: [osol-mktg] How do users/ISVs use opensolaris?
>>>Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:58:22 -0500 (CDT)
>>>From: Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM>
>>>Reply-To: Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM>
>>>To: Brian Hammond <Brian.Hammond at Sun.COM>
>>>CC: opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org
>>>References: <424889.1124143523654.JavaMail.suncom at oss1>
>>>
>>>On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Brian Hammond wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hello!
>>>>
>>>>I am in Sun GSO, Global Education & Research LOB. We have a lot of  
>>>>interest
>>>>in OpenSolaris from customers who want to use it, and ISVs that  
>>>>want to
>>>>support it. But I don't see that we have any mechanism for doing  
>>>>this, since
>>>>there is no official opensolaris distribution.
>>>>
>>>>Any ideas? I think it is important to populate the open solaris  
>>>>ecosystems with
>>>>applications and users, not just developers, in the same way that  
>>>>Linux has done.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Hey Brian,
>>>
>>>Because at this stage only the core of Solaris has been open-sourced,
>>>it's a bit early for customers and ISVs to support OpenSolaris in the
>>>context of a distro release (but read on).
>>>
>>>That didn't stop Joerg Schilling though. He's doing some amazing work
>>>building a 100% open-source OpenSolaris distro by taking what Sun  _has_
>>>released and -- rather than waiting -- filling in the gaps himself.
>>>For a summary of this work, see:
>>>http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=6693#6693
>>>
>>>So if some of your EDU/Research constituents are really, _really_  eager
>>>to work with a resistributable OpenSolaris distro, I would encourage
>>>them to join the SchilliX effort: http://schillix.berlios.de. (Oh, and
>>>speaking of the EDU/Research sector, the SchilliX project is funded by
>>>Fokus Franuhofer, one of the biggest non-profit institutes in  Germany.)
>>>
>>>Finally, there's a "newcomer" on the scene. See this blog entry  titled,
>>>OpenSolaris comes alive on a ramdisk:
>>>
>>>http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/moinakg? 
>>>entry=opensolaris_comes_alive_on_a
>>>
>>>Eric
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>>>
>>>
>>
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