Hello there, Recently, I was in Sun Tech Days, Hyderabad (Feb 26th -28th, 08). I saw a raising OpenSolaris community in India. So may reflects to Nepal. Here, until then, The Linux is so ubiquitous that you see none of the chaps running solars kernel. At least, In Sun Tech Day, I found all notebooks to tower running Solaris. There was a booth, not only gave away the Opensolaris CD but also manage to install it voluntarily.
From the start, I was on impression that Solaris an enterprise server. Surprisingly, Sun now trying to exploit the desktop realm. They did tweak Gnome and named it Java Desktop long back. They are coming up with new innovation in this field as they are always known for. Booth like NetBeans, MySQL, PosgreSQL, GlassFish and JavaDB were showcasing what Sun has to offer for the community driven products. Indeed, Sun now showing huge interest in SAMP stack too. MySQL co-founder, David Axmark and Debian founder, Ian Murdock, key notes were the interesting part of the events. They are respected figure in Linux community. As you might be aware that by now, they are the part of Sun Enterprise. Today, Ian seems more Solaris evangelist, less linux guru. In retrospect, Daniel Robbins, joined Microsoft, made a quick exit citing that M$ failed to exploits his skill. We might see the same happening again. I doubt since the Sun is friendly with the community and I find nothing wrong being associated with Sun as being Linux pundit. The OpenSolaris when popped with CDDL was quite co-operate friendly since some of GPL clause is a matter of concerns. Its up to the community to discuss whether CDDL is comfortable with them. Community here mostly belongs to GPL realm and they might bash CDDL claiming that RMS/FSF didn't like that. There are number of concern in CDDL that raises serious concern however we should not forget that Sun commitment towards the community is really encouraging. On the other hand, Sun endorsing GPL seriously. Recently, sun came in dual-license under the GPL (v2) with Classpath Exception for Netbean,GlassFish, Java and more about to see. I got chance to meet one of the key figure in Opensolaris. I asked him whether Sun is considering Solaris under GPL, He replied with no comment. Thats sound interesting. During 2nd and 3rd day key note speech. Group of young energetics student were awarded for their valuable contribution in opensolaris and netbeans project. One of the example was really inspiring, a group of students from Kerala made significant bugs fixes in OpenSolaris kernel. They came from the early stage when they used to ask Solaris engineer -- How to install OpenSolaris in Windows? A real short journey from being naïve to the hardcore kernel hacker, must be an exciting adventure, finally the moment when they were awarded turns out to be a great recognition for their unbelievable contribution. I also found a student who manage to get time to build opensolaris distribution called BeleniX, now a leading solaris disitrbution from the community. All from India. Its happening from the far remote village to downtown colleges. I was wondering do we have any folks over here to start the OpenSolaris User Group in Nepal and work closely with Bangalore, Hyderabad solaris community in free time. Not in user level but at least in developer level, who can mimic the success of Keralese student. -- Sarose --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
