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Need help: Suggestions on OpenSolaris topics for a new UG?
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Oct 8, 2009 10:47 AM
To: Communities » advocacy » discuss
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We are about to expand the New England OpenSolaris User Group to include meetings at Boston University.
What do you suggest as topics for the kick-off meeting assuming most attendees will be students with little or no experience with OpenSolaris? How to best get them up to speed and excited about the community?
Pointers to existing materials would be a real plus since the meeting is scheduled for the 2nd week in November. Absent pointer, please send ideas!
Josh
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Re: Need help: Suggestions on OpenSolaris topics for a new UG?
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Oct 20, 2009 7:06 PM
in response to: simons
To: Communities » education » curriculum
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There is a lot of stuff. The first thing they ought to know is about the "Live CD", it's a super useful way to poke around without changing the system you run it on.
Once someone installs it, there's ZFS & fault management that's pretty sweet. If there are hardware problems, they cause less carnage that with other operating systems. It's nice to have early warning to faulty hardware. If you have a dual or a quad core machine, you can literally turn off and on cores on the fly if you want to.
Then there's like a full set of compilers, tools, and things they care about like standards compliant operating environment. There's a really good Fortran compiler, C++ STL, concurrent 32/64 bit runtime, concurrent realtime/non-realtime capacity, & the list just goes on.
My favorite airplane trick is to shut off my laptop by just yanking the battery. I can do it because I run an OS that can handle this. It's fun to see people gasp out loud in surprise when they see it. When I just turn the machine back on once we're in the air, more surprised looks usually ensue.
In any case, there's a heck of a lot of material you can go into at the UG. It might be good to poll people in the group about what they're interested in knowing more about. There's enough depth in many areas to satisfy the most hardcore of geeks, so that could be a useful approach.
Tim
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