OpenSolaris News Bites

Short Items of Interest to the OpenSolaris Community

Mounting an S3 Bucket as a Filesystem on OpenSolaris

Why would someone want to do this? Well, for one, it would simplify the process of moving your non-cloud application into the cloud and you can reuse your file access code. Additionally, cp & mv are much better alternatives to get & put, and you can cache your S3 access in local disks, reducing the number of times you need to access S3 for your data. Interested? Visit the OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2: Information and News blog.

GUI on OpenSolaris EC2 Instance

The steps to access GUI on OpenSolaris EC2 Instance using VNC Viewer number just four. Divyen Patel not only walks readers through each one, he also provides screen shots.

Run a Carrier Grade Web Content Management System Freely and Easily

Need a carrier grade web content management system build on a carrier grade scaling and supportable platform? Try using Drupal 6.9, OpenSolaris 2008.11, and VirtualBox. Stefan Schneider provides some steps and other links.

Flash Player 10 for OpenSolaris

Roman Strobl provides the link for those that didn't know that Flash player 10 is available now for OpenSolaris and Solaris.

Skype on Solaris

Learn from Christian Thalinger's full day of dedication to figure out how to get Skype to run on OpenSolaris using the Linux version of Skype on Solaris with the help of BrandZ.

The Virtualization Aspects of Project Crossbow

The new TCP/IP stack of OpenSolaris known as Crossbow is the topic of what looks like may be a series coming from Joerg Moellenkamp, who has penned a on this Solaris feature with the focus on its virtualization characteristics. The entry covers simulating a simple network, template zone, site.xml, Zone configurations for the testbed, sysidcfg files, firing up the zones, playing with the simulated network, and building a more complex network.