One of the benefits of Sun again being a Platinum Sponsor of the
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in
Computing (Keystone Resort, Colorado, October 1-4, 2008) is
that we get to put stuff into the bags given out at registration
to all conference participants. This year, we are distributing
OpenSolaris
Back to School Student Pack. The Back to School
Student Pack includes
two CDs – a Live bootable and installable OpenSolaris CD, plus a Resources DVD.
I think the Grace Hopper participants, particularly the majority who are
university students or faculty, will put these to good use.
Websites for Update Versions and More Information
OpenSolaris (an operating system that provides a rich, coherent platform
for building and running applications)- VirtualBox
(a family of powerful x86 virtualization products) - OpenOffice
(the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more) - NetBeans
(A free, open-source Integrated Development Environment
for software developers.)
Resources for Hopper 2008:
- Professors and academic institutions interested in OpenSolaris and
Student Pack, please
contact opensolaris-university@sun.com soon. -
2.8 Gb Downloadable VirtualBox Guest Image
(as found on the Resource DVD distributed at Hopper 2008) - gzip Home Page for the gunzip.exe
program for Windows users
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