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

[Moinak Ghosh]

Hi Derek,

   I've got the answers to my questions so it's all resolved now.

Regards,
Moinak,

Derek Cicero wrote:

> Teresa Giacomini wrote:
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>> Hi Derek,
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>> 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...
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> Moinak,
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> Are we clear on the LiveCD issues or is there still for me to resolve?
>
> Thanks,
> Derek
>
>>
>> T
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>> Moinak Ghosh wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>>
>>>> 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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