In this Issue | April 2009 SourceJuicer debuts Try the open cloud platform Compiling MPlayer on OpenSolaris View translated versions   OpenSolaris Ignite Newsletter Toshiba OpenSolaris laptops now available! Choose from two models — both fully loaded first class systems ready for you to develop, test and run. Buy now News OpenSolaris 2008.11 support is available from Sun OpenSolaris subscriptions provide access to the support and tools you may need to run and maintain your OpenSolaris deployments. Participate in the Apps of Steel Challenge Submit your OpenSolaris package for a chance to win a Toshiba laptop. Take advantage of SourceJuicer 1.0 SourceJuicer is a web service for community developers that facilitates the building and review of OpenSolaris packages and serves as the gateway to the OpenSolaris /pending and /contrib repositories. Sun Studio Express — 3/09 build — available for download Sun Studio Express 3/09, the official build used for the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Early Access Program, is now available on Solaris, OpenSolaris and the latest Linux distributions (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise, CentOS, Ubuntu). Download Adobe Reader 9.1 for Solaris x86 Adobe has released the latest version of Adobe Reader for Solaris x86, including S10 and OpenSolaris users. Tutorials Package Manager: What's up for 2009.06? Jim Rice blogs about the new Start Page and WebInstall. Compiling MPlayer on OpenSolaris — this time with a GUI Roman Strobl walks you through the steps necessary to enjoy your favorite movies with a GUI on OpenSolaris Optimized code debugging with Sun Studio dbx Sun software engineer Nasser Nouri explains how effectively dbx can be used to debug optimized code when the code generated by the compiler has the location list debugging information. Videos/Podcasts Learn about Sun and Intel joint engineering Watch a video that provides a high level overview of the joint engineering work on Solaris in the areas of performance, energy efficiency, virtualization and reliability. Get briefed about Power Aware Dispatcher and Deep C-states Find out how Power Aware Dispatcher and Deep C-states provide greater power efficiency without performance impact when running Solaris on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series. Blogs Trying out Sun's Open Cloud Platform Sun employee Scott Davenport talks about his first experience with cloud computing — taking an existing directory hierarchy and copying it to the cloud. OpenSolaris running great on Intel Solaris and OpenSolaris are packed with optimizations specific to Intel's Nehalem chip, reports Roman Strobl. How to Install the NetBeans DTrace GUI Plugin Learn how to download, install, and run the NetBeans™ Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) GUI Plugin. Reviews Digitar saves big money with Sun Open Source Storage "Our entire operation is based on open source, and the financial perspective is the biggest reason," said Jason Williams, COO and CTO of Digitar in an interview with Enterprise Storage Forum. He added "there are performance benefits, too." Tech Tips View OpenSolaris 2008.11 device driver lists The BigAdmin portal now has reference lists for device and third-party device drivers. Check out the multiple options for device support See the HCL list of third-party devices that run on the OpenSolaris 2008.11 release. Managing I/O topology changes in OpenSolaris The device_remap Perl script — included in OpenSolaris build 106 — can manage I/O topology changes that occur due to CPU chip failures in multi-node sun4v platforms. Events Sun Student Tech Camps All 3 camps on April 23 SF Bay Area, CA Burlington, MA Broomfield, CO Open HA Cluster Summit May 31 San Francisco, CA CommunityOne West June 1-3 San Francisco, CA JavaOne June 2-5 San Francisco, CA © 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. For information on Sun's trademarks, see: www.sun.com/suntrademarks To manage your Sun subscriptions, visit the Subscription Center. Sun Microsystems, Inc., 18 Network Circle, M/S: UMPK18-124 Attn: Global eMarketing, Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA