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On 12/ 8/08 02:42 PM, Andrzej Grzesik wrote:
> Hi! I?m writing to inform that there actually is an OpenSolaris user group at
> Cracow University of Economics.
>
> The leaders are:
> 1) Andrzej Grzesik (me), a student (ags.sun)
> 2) Pawe? Wo?oszyn, a teacher at the University at the department of
> Calculation Systems (logan123)
> 3) Olga Madejska, a student (olamad)
>
> Simplistically speaking, group focus is on people spending time in nice
> company, talking with others who share common interests and experiment with
> similar things. The group's activities consist mainly of meetings, which
> occur +/- once a month, during which we talk about new cool things in the
> world (not only open source), try to solve problems which we encounter and
> generally have fun. Last time we met we were talking about scaling
> OpenSolaris for use as a stressed LAMP platform. Some administration staff
> from the university came, because they have been curious about OpenSolaris
> and features it offers comparing to SlackWare (this was easy) and Debian
> (which they migrated to recently, this was tougher). They were happy with
> what they heard, especially about ZFS and zones. And they took OS 2008.05 CDs
> to give it a try at homes.
>
> "Members" consist of members of Programming Club (mainly) and Computer
> Science Club, but other OSS fans come too.
> The name "KNP UEK" is a result of a quick email query which happened
> yesterday.
>
> As for me, I've started with OpenSolaris in Nov 2007, tried SXCE, SXDE,
> Nexenta and now I'm using 2008.11 (though constantly patching 2008.5 since
> may), as my *ix environment and to show to people. It looks nice, works
> really well, has working sound - it's almost as easy to convince them to try
> as with Ubuntu :> And ZFS works like a charm.
>
> If you would like to know more, feel free to ask, I'll be happy to provide
> the details you need.
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrzej Grzesik
>
>
>
>
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