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Fourth NEOSUG meeting and Call to Action
Hi NEOSUG'ers! Sorry for the lateness of this update, but now the holidays are over and it's back to work. Our November NEOSUG meeting featured two great talks: Jeff Victor talked about the Solaris 8 Migration Assistant, which is a software technology that enables a Solaris 10 Container to behave like a Solaris 8 system. The slides from the talk are available here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ne-osug/files/S8MA-Customer.pdf In its first public demonstrration (!), Dave Miner showed off Project Indiana, which is a new project to create an OpenSolaris binary distribution. Dave also handed out CDs containing this first preview distribution (version .75). Quite a few folks at the meeting used this liveCD to boot and test Indiana, while others (like me) installed it as a VMware guest to play with. Dave's slide are available here: http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/slides_from_indiana_at_neosug Finally, this user group is actually for y'all, the users. Please take a minute to fill out this survey to tell us about logistics and topics for future NEOSUG meetings: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=KEoVVsviYk1cJD56XeWeaw_3d_3d Also, if you have an interesting topic to talk about, and want to talk about it, please get in touch and we'll try to include that in a future meeting. Based on your surveys and feedback, we'll start planning the next NEOSUG meeting. As always, questions and comments are welcome. --Peter Peter Baer Galvin Chief Technologist, Corporate Technologies 3 Burlington Woods, Burlington, MA 01803 781 273 4100 / pbg at cptech.com / peter at galvin.info www.cptech.com / www.galvin.info / pbgalvin.wordpress.com Fourth NEOSUG meeting and Call to Action | 02/04/2008Hi NEOSUG'ers! Sorry for the lateness of this update, but now the holidays are over and it's back to work. Our November NEOSUG meeting featured two great talks: Jeff Victor talked about the Solaris 8 Migration Assistant, which is a software technology that enables a Solaris 10 Container to behave like a Solaris 8 system. The slides from the talk are available here In its first public demonstrration (!), Dave Miner showed off Project Indiana, which is a new project to create an OpenSolaris binary distribution. Dave also handed out CDs containing this first preview distribution (version .75). Quite a few folks at the meeting used this liveCD to boot and test Indiana, while others (like me) installed it as a VMware guest to play with. Dave's slide are available here Finally, this user group is actually for y'all, the users. Please take a minute to fill out this survey to tell us about logistics and topics for future NEOSUG meetings, by 2/15/2008 Also, if you have an interesting topic to talk about, and want to talk about it, please get in touch and we'll try to include that in a future meeting. Based on your surveys and feedback, we'll start planning the next NEOSUG meeting. As always, questions and comments are welcome.
Fourth NEOSUG Meeting : Indiana and Solaris 8 Migration Assistant | 10/04/2007You are invited to: The New England Open Solaris User Group (NEOSUG) Meeting Topic for this months meeting: The Past and Future of Sun: (1) Solaris 8 Migration Assistant and (2) Project Indiana (with install fest!) Please RSVP at http://www.sun.com/events/neosug What: New England OpenSolaris User Group Meeting (NEOSUG) When: November 1, 2007 6:30-9:30 pm (registration 5:30) Come for all presentations or just a portion ! Where: Sun Microsystems Campus 1 Network Circle Burlington MA Find it on GoogleMap here: (Map courtesy of Google Maps) http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Sun+Microsystems+Burlington,+MA&ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=42.504756,-71.230545&spn=0.090865,0.115013&t=h&om=1 Who should attend? : UNIX Developers, Solaris users, System Managers and System Administrators: AGENDA: 5:30-6:30: Registration, Light Refreshments 6:30-6:30: Introductions, Peter Galvin 6:30-7:30: Solaris 8 Migration Assistant, Jeff Victor, Sun Microsystems 7:30-8:30: Project Indiana, Dave Miner, Sun Microsystems 8:30-9:30: Discussion and Install-Fest featuring Project Indiana (VMware edition and live CDs will be on hand to install) TALK DESCRIPTIONS: The Solaris 8 Migration Assistant is a software technology that enables a Solaris 10 Container to behave like a Solaris 8 system. Most applications that run on Solaris 8 will run in a Solaris 8 Container without recompilation or other modification. S8MA enables a consolidated platform to run both Solaris 10 and Solaris 8 applications, and both can benefit from the innovative features of Solaris 10. This session will describe and demonstrate the S8MA technology, and will discuss the types of situations for which S8MA is an appropriate technology. Project Indiana is a new project to create an OpenSolaris binary distribution. This distribution will focus on providing a single CD install with the basic core operating system and desktop environment, with the opportunity of installing additional software off network repositories. The distribution will showcase much of the work continuing in the OpenSolaris community and the best of breed open source software available within other open source communities. Moverover, the distribution will include work that closes the familiarity gap with existing GNU/Linux users eg. install and packaging. The talk will cover the goals for Indiana, and how it'll relate to the Solaris release train. We'll dive into some of the details of what's different about it, including:
NEOSUG BIOs: Dave Minor: Solaris engineering and OpenSolaris community member Dave Miner is a senior staff engineer in the Solaris development group at Sun Microsystems and an architect for the Installation technologies. He's also a lead for the Approachability and Installation communities and the Live Media project on OpenSolaris.org. Dave's background is in networking and system administration. During his 16+ year tenure at Sun, Dave has worked on several technologies including the original Solaris admintool, a product related to PC-NFS called SolarNet PC-Admin, the Solaris DHCP server and DHCP Manager management tool, and the Service Management Facility (SMF). Jeff Victor : Solaris Specialist, Sun Microsystems Jeff Victor is a Solaris Specialist and has been employed by Sun Microsystems for 10 years. Jeff helps Sun's partners and customers understand the benefits of Solaris 10 and its innovative technologies, and specializes in server virtualization using Solaris. Fourth NEOSUG Meeting : Indiana Plus | 10/01/2007You are invited to: The New England Open Solaris User Group (NEOSUG) Meeting Topic for this months meeting: The Future of Sun?: Project Indiana. Install-Fest to follow presentations. Please RSVP at : www.sun.com/events/neosug <outbind://542/www.sun.com/events/neosug>
What: New England OpenSolaris User Group Meeting (NEOSUG)
When: November 1, 2007 6:30-9:30 pm (registration 5:30) Come for all presentations or just a portion New talk added to Third NEOSUG meeting | 09/11/2007We've had a last-minute update to our agenda for the NEOSUG meeting tonight. Sebastian Roy will present a very interesting talk: Advances in Solaris Network Administration. This talk includes the current state of Solaris networking including details on the new Clearview, Brussels and Crossbow projects. We'll extend the meeting by an hour and Sebastians' talk will be from 7:30 to 8:30. Hope to see you all tonight … Third NEOSUG Meeting | 09/06/2007You are invited to: The New England Open Solaris User Group (NEOSUG) Meeting When: September 11th, 2007 6:00PM to 8:30 PM
Where: Boston Sheraton, 39 Dalton Street, Boston, MA (BACK BAY Room)
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=430/ Who should attend? : UNIX Developers, Solaris users, System Managers and System Administrators: The agenda for the evening will include an in depth discussion of Sun's sun4v virtualization technology: Logical Domains (LDoms) AGENDA: 5:30-6:00: Registration, Light Refreshments 6:20-6:30: Introductions by Peter Galvin 6:30-7:30: Presentation and Demo of Logical Domains — Eric Sharakan, Sun Engineer 7:30-8:30 Closing: Peter Galvin – What’s next for NEOSUG/ Q&A/ Ask the Experts In addition to the NEOSUG meeting, Sun Tech Days are being held at the Boston Sheraton September 11-12, 2007. Please register at: http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/2007/US_BOS.jsp Featured keynote: James Gosling Vice President and Sun Fellow Sun Microsystems, Inc. NEOSUG BIOs ---— Peter Galvin, Chief T echnologist, Corporate Technologies Inc. Peter Baer Galvin is the Chief Technologist for Corporate Technologies, Inc., a systems integrator and VAR, and was the Systems Manager for Brown University’s Computer Science Department. He has written articles for Byte and other magazines. He wrote the Pete’s Wicked World and Pete’s Super Systems columns at SunWorld Magazine. He is currently contributing editor for SysAdmin Magazine, where he managed the Solaris Corner. Peter is co-author of the Operating Systems Concepts and Applied Operating Systems Concepts texbooks. Eric Sharakan is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems. Eric has been at Sun for almost 11 years, and in his most recent position as the lead for the LDom Manager component of Logical Domains for 2 1/2 years. Previous projects at Sun included Sun HPC ClusterTools engineering; advanced research projects in leveraging Java & Jini for distributed resource management, and in micro-checkpointing for RAS; platform engineering for the Common Software organization. Eric joined Sun as part of Sun's acquisition of Thinking Machines Corp's clustering technology in 1996, where he had been employed for 10 years, working on various hardware & software projects About Sun Tech Days: Advance your development ability and shape your future with cutting-edge technical education; Sun Tech Days are loaded with practical information, examples of real-world solutions, and hands-on training. Whatever your focus, you’ll find sessions to take your skills to the next level and advance your career. Space is limited!!!! |
