2008.11: More ways to get it, and more ways to share it

Wednesday 10 December 2008 - Filed under Product

As I did for 2008.05, I’ll collect links to mirror sites here. These will also get links on the various download pages out there.

Construction of 2008.11 was faster, more efficient, and generally more predictable than 2008.05. Image packaging, snap upgrade, and the distribution constructor—and the notorious distro importer—saw many fixes and features that resulted in the ability to rapidly turn out corrected images and packages. As problems were found during testing, we could spin up new test variants in hours or less. (Thus, the existance of RC1.5, which we were able to inject into the schedule because of this newfound speed. Dave’s written more about the constructor.) You can get the ISO image, suitable for burning to a 700 MiB CD or immediate use in virtual environment, directly from the following locations:

• via HTTP from dlc.sun.com,
• via HTTP from genunix.org.
• via HTTP from mirror.switch.ch.
• via HTTP from iso.zagbot.com,

  Thanks to Lyndsay Roger of zagbot.com.

• via HTTP from opensolaris.linuxfreedom.com,

  Thanks to linuxfreedom.com’s Jonathan.

• via HTTP from fastbull.org,

Thanks to Rodolfo Boraso for this site (and for working on the NLUUG sites below).

• via HTTP from mirrors.cat.pdx.edu,
• via rsync from mirrors.cat.pdx.edu

  Thanks to Matt Whiteley at Portland State University for these two sites.

• via HTTP from lifewithsolaris.jp,

  Thanks to Shunsuke from lifewithsolaris.jp.

• via HTTP from os.elemental.org,

  Thanks to Dale from elemental.org.

• via FTP from nluug.nl,
• via HTTP from nluug.nl,
• via rsync from nluug.nl,
• via FTP from surfnet.nl,
• via HTTP from surfnet.nl,
• via rsync from surfnet.nl,

Thanks to the Dutch Unix Users Group (NLUUG) for these sites.

• and via BitTorrent.

As Glynn notes, we’ve set up anonymous rsync to make acquiring and mirroring the ISO images. In addition, I’ve posted draft instructions on how to be a content mirror for pkg.opensolaris.org/dev. We’ve tested the pkg(5) content mirroring, as well as the rsync service, but would be happy to get feedback on pkg-discuss@opensolaris.org.

These links either take you to the site’s page or directly to the osol-0811.iso CD image, which contains 11 “primary languages”. It installs quite a bit faster, particularly on systems with slower CPUs. There is also an LZMA-compressed image, which has localization support for 42 languages, including those primary ones. It’s available from dlc.sun.com, genunix.org,