OpenSolaris RC1 Hits the Streets

November 9, 2008 General 2 Comments

Yesterday, David mailed the announcement of OpenSolaris 2008.11 Release Candidate 1. After a pretty monumental effort on several counts, we’re almost in the home stretch for our release at the end of this month. We’ve all come such a long way since the first release in May, and I’m really hopeful that people are going to enjoy this release – we have more packages than ever, the new projects introduced in May are more mature including some really great features, and (best of all) we’re about to produce another release on a 6 month cadence.

I’m in the final stages of putting together a ‘What’s new in 2008.11’ document, so I’ll not spoil that blog post. But go get it (continuing thanks to genunix.org for their support in hosting the developer ISOs), or image-update from an existing install and, most importantly, tell us what you think.

The engineering team have done another excellent and tireless job, as usual, but in particular I’d like to thank Comay for the fricken long hours he’s put in over the last week or two – home straight dude, home straight.