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December 2007 Archives

Configuring a Sun Ray Server

Here in Fundação CERTI, where I'm allocated as a Campus Ambassador, we have received a donation of 17" screen Sun Rays and a great Workstation that I had the opportunity to install Solaris and Sun Ray Server on it.

The Solaris installation was really simple, just inserted the cd and followed the steps. The Workstation has two Ethernet interfaces, that are called in the system as nge0 (Gigabit) and nge1. We have chosen to use nge1 to connect to external network and nge0 to create internal network for the Sun Rays.

After configured the nge1 through the Solaris wizard, we have installed the Sun Ray Server with the cd that comes with the Workstation. Just run a few commands and followed the steps on then (in the respective order: "/cdrom/cdrom0/utinstall", "utadm -a nge0" and "utconfig") and there it is, a set of Sun Ray Clients working using just one machine.

The workstation and a Client:

Some of the other Clients:

Sun Rays are great! I invite you all to take a better look and see more details here: http://www.sun.com/software/index.jsp?cat=Desktop&tab=3&subcat=Sun%20Ray%20Clients

OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards

A few days ago, Sun announced that is going to sponsor Open Source community with $1M. In my opinion this is a great way to encourage students to get involved with Open Source projects.

One of the sponsored projects is community for researches related to operating systems, called OpenSolaris. The list and wiki for the OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards are now open. If you'd like to get involved, please go here:

http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Community_Innovation_Awards

UFSC Campus Ambassador and Ambassador kit

Since October I'm the Sun Campus Ambassador of Federal University of Santa Catarina. It's a great job, which I'm responsible to connect students and university to Sun Microsystems.

Today I got surprised when a big box come in my house. It is a Ambassador kit with cds (with NetBeans, Sun Studio and others), OpenSolaris books, T-Shirts, pens, a backpack and many more.

I just got crazy, started to open the box and remove everything from inside:

The Ambassador T-Shirt, backpack and pens:

CDs and OpenSolaris keyfobs:

December 20th I'm going to São Paulo, Brazil, to meet the Ambassadors from the rest of the Country and Gary Serda, that also will be there. That's really exciting!

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