Calum's Wee GNOME Blog » vdi http://blogs.gnome.org/calum Usability an' that Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:33:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Try out OpenSolaris… in your browser http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2009/06/19/try-out-opensolaris-in-your-browser/ http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2009/06/19/try-out-opensolaris-in-your-browser/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:32:37 +0000 calum http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/?p=428 This is a neat idea (if not technically all that novel)… log in to Sun Learning Services portal, and you can play with a virtual instance of OpenSolaris for up to an hour.

It does require Java, there are only 8 slots available at any one time, and right now they’re still provisioning OpenSolaris 2008.11 rather than the newer and shinier 2009.06. But if you want to give OpenSolaris a quick whirl, you might find it more convenient than downloading the LiveCD.

More info in Brian Leonard’s blog entry.

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