In this Issue | May 2009 New support of multimedia formats Win-win of ZFS compression Build JDS on OpenSolaris Read Ignite in Spanish and Portuguese   OpenSolaris Ignite Newsletter OpenSolaris will rock CommunityOne West this year! Come to San Francisco June 1-3 for CommunityOne West. Get the latest on open source technologies plus the chance to hang out in the OpenSolaris Install Lounge, participate in student- to-student chat, and attend a killer party. It's free (but space is limited). Register today! News OpenSolaris 2009.06 ships Firefox 3.1b3 Enjoy a lot of new features, including improvements for performance/security/TraceMonkey and open video/audio support. Using the Solaris OS to optimize the Xeon Processor 5500 For developers and sys admins, this paper includes an overview of the Sun/Intel collaboration, and brief technical descriptions of specific features and capabilities that can be implemented in the Solaris OS. Students: attend JavaOne at a reduced fee Get access to everything the pros get, plus free training and certification opportunities and access to cool lounges and gaming spaces. Tutorials Learn about the win-win of ZFS compression “This may sound counterintuitive, but turning on ZFS compression saves space and improves performance,” blogs Brian Leonard. Get an easy Drupal demo You can have a demo of the Drupal contact management platform up and running in a few simple steps. Running GNOME shell on OpenSolaris With GNOME 3.0 around the corner, GNOME Shell is one of the exciting new usability enhancements being worked on. Blogs How to build JDS on OpenSolaris MattMan gives you step-by-step instructions on this blog post. Upcoming Time Slider features in build 2009.06 “Under the hood, nautilus visualization is now fully multithreaded and the interface has been polished,” blogs Erwann Chenede. What is this community thing like FOSS about? Sun VP Bob Porras’ latest analogy to open source software uses a popular franchise of Major League Baseball. The state of open source storage Writing for Enterprise Storage Forum Drew Robb provides an overview on the latest in Open Storage. Highlights include ZFS and OpenSolaris. Tech Tips How to start translating OpenSolaris The translation process is easier than ever using CTI (Community Translation Interface) developed by G11n engineering team in Prague. Reviews Linux-magazine.com reviews new OpenSolaris multimedia features The next big release of Open Solaris 2009.06 should support multimedia formats over GStreamer 0.10 and the related Fluendo codecs. Videos/Podcasts DemoFest ’09 Sun’s Niall Power demonstrates some of the new desktop features. View part one and part two. Events OpenSolaris Live Chat May 28, 2009 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT Open HA Cluster Summit May 31 San Francisco, CA CommunityOne West June 1-3 San Francisco, CA JavaOne June 2-5 San Francisco, CA Fisl 10 June 24-27 Porto Algre/RS Brasil © 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