FYI.

If you like the combination of opensolaris kernel and a ubuntu userland and are a open source developer, this might be of interest to you. NexentaOS is a registered project on launchpad.net (ubuntu's collaboration platform). NCP 1.0 is based on Ubuntu Dapper sources. NCP will move to 2.0 and be based on Ubuntu Hardy. There is a hackathon planned around this effort.

Expect the below announcement on suitable Debian & Ubuntu developer shortly. See DPL's note about Nexenta after last year's DebConf [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/257265 [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/11/msg00060.html

-Shiv

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erast Benson erast@gnusolaris.org Date: Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:07 AM Subject: Announcing Hackathon event this Saturday (05/31/08) To: gnusol-devel gnusol-devel@gnusolaris.org Cc: gnusol-users gnusol-users@lists.sonic.net

Dear NexentaOS Developers and Users!

Starting this Saturday, we are inviting all Debian/Nexenta and OpenSolaris developers and users to participate in our first Hackathon event.

Hackathon starts on this Saturday 05/31/2008 and continues during first week of June. Development coordinated at #nexenta on freenode IRC.

We are migrating from Ubuntu Dapper to Ubuntu Hardy user land and will be hacking on very initial version of NCP 2.0.

You don't need to install Nexenta, (ZFS-powered) build environment and SSH access to the dedicated Zone will be automatically (see devzone package) provided to interested developers by request on #nexenta freenode IRC.

The work coordinated at #nexenta freenode IRC and this static web page:

http://www.nexenta.org/Hackathon

ZFS-powered Nexenta Zones managed on specially prepared NexentaOS build servers connected to the public Internet. Servers and Internet collocation kindly provided by Stanford University, CA.

Join now and make a difference! It is going to be fun!

--- The Nexenta Team