We think the OpenSolaris effort will become progressively a factor in the open source community. We have become a Sponsor of Blastwave/Blastware to help foster support for Solaris on PowerPC and specifically on the ODW. We are working on some good things over there. If you have some interest stop by the sites. We have an icon in the left column here at PPCZone. Also, from here:

http://www.blastwave.org/

http://www.blastware.org/

http://www.blastwave.org/sponsors/index.html

Please consider making a donation to the effort. The Blastware/Blastwave Team are some of the most dedicated and hardworking folks we have met.

Also of note: OpenSolaris User Groups are sprouting up worldwide. For example, here is one:

Date: September 13, 2005
Start time: 16.45

Location: Sun Microsystems, Esbogatan 14, Akalla/Kista, Sweden

Agenda:
16.45 Registration
17.00 The new TCP/IP stack in OpenSolaris and future features and improvements, Kjell Högström, Sun
17.45 OpenSolaris - What is it ? Status and roadmap ?
18.30 Break for sandwiches
18.50 How to go on with OpenSolaris in Sweden ? Discussion.
20.00 End of Day

Please register by sending an e-mail to: kjell (dot) hogstrom (at) sun (dot) com

We are working on getting some of our strongest pegpower-users and developers from the PUSH Team and Pegasos.org at the Event.

R&B

Jepp, Me and Lisardman will join the meeting. Thanks to
Genesi we can travel a long way across Sweden for this.

Hopefully we will have a nice discussion and that the
PowerPC port - Polaris will be a major part of future
OpenSolaris meetings.