Andrzej Grzesik wrote: > Hi! I?m writing to inform that there actually is an OpenSolaris user group at > Cracow University of Economics.
Hi, Well done! FYI. There is also Polish OpenSolaris IRC channel #opensolaris-pl on the irc.freenode.net. best Michal Pryc http://blogs.sun.com/migi > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss
