Dear CHOSUG members, For those of you who are interested in having an OpenSolaris 2008.05 media and Tee-Shirt, we will bring a few at the following Beer2Beer sessions: - Geneva :22nd of may at CICG (See event), Time: 17:00 - Zurich: 6th of may at Brewery "Turbine" in ZH-Altstetten, Time: 18:00
Latest tests of OpenSolaris 2008.05 are the following: - zfs at the root FS ! - fast to Boot on the LiveCD (2 minutes) - fast to install (21 minutes) - no problems on TOSHIBA TECRA M2 and HP nx7000 - punchin works fine - xvm VirtualBox works fine (XP and even OpenSolaris were installed in a straight forward manner) - package manager allow to download/install OpenOffice in one command (a la blastwave) - nwam woks fine - more test to come (if enough time, but your help would be appreciated too ;) Please start thinking about the next CHOSUG meeting subject. Discussion can start at the B2B sessions too :) My TECRA is only a 32 bit Centrino. If anyone is having a 64 bits CPU, please let us know about your tests with xVM server Hypervisor. Regards. Karim B.
