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St. Louis OpenSolaris User Group – STLOSUG

About Us

The St. Louis OpenSolaris User Group brings together everyone in the St. Louis metro area who's interested in learning more about the OpenSolaris and Solaris operating systems. Whether you're new to OpenSolaris or a seasoned sysadmin, a developer, or simply a curious computer user, we encourage you to join us.

STLOSUG is a SIG (special interest group) affiliated with the St. Louis UNIX Users Group.

Next Meeting: Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Topic: ZFS root; Solaris 10 10/08 update "What's New"

Our October meeting's speaker will be Bob Netherton. Having ZFS as your root filesystem is very powerful, but it also implies some changes in our admin habits and best practices. Bob will give a good look at ZFS root, and will go over "What's New" in the upcoming Solaris 10 10/08 release.

Meeting Info

The St. Louis OpenSolaris Users Group meets on the third Tuesday of each month. Meetings are in the same building as the Sun Microsystems office, on the second floor. Parking is available in the garage immediately east of the building.

Address: Sun Microsystems, Inc.; 622 Emerson Road; Second Floor presentation room; St. Louis, MO 63141

The starting time for meetings is currently under discussion. We will be starting the October meeting either at 6:00 or 7:00pm — stay tuned for developments here.

Discussion Lists

The [ug-stlosug] email discussion list is hosted at opensolaris.org. If you are interested in STLOSUG, you are encouraged to subscribe. We need your input to plan future meeting times, topics, etc.

Visit the [ug-stlosug] info page to get started.

You are also encouraged to subscribe to SLUUG's [announce] and [discuss] lists. Visit the SLUUG Mailing List page for more information.

Upcoming Meetings

Date	Meeting Topic	Presenter	Meeting Description
October 21	ZFS as root FS; Solaris 10 10/08 "What's New"	Bob Netherton	ZFS as root FS for sysadmins; details on Solaris 10 10/08
November 18	Seeking speakers	-	-
December 16	Likely canceled for holidays	-	-
January 20, 2009	Seeking speakers	-	-

Requested and Potential Future Meeting Topics

This list contains meeting topics requested by STLOSUG members. If you see something you like, please volunteer to give a talk or lead a discussion on one of these topics! And if there's something that you'd like to add to the list, please post your request to the STLOSUG discussion list.

Status	Topic
-	Zones: howto; best practices; applications and use cases
Jeff Logullo, 05/20/08	ZFS: What's new; what's changed
Jeff Logullo, 06/19/07	Installation in partitions/multiboot on x64
-	Best Practices: Production server builds; hardening; security; making use of new features
-	BART: Howto; comparison with Tripwire
-	Best Practices for patch management
-	WAN Booting/Jumpstart/installation
-	OpenLDAP and OpenSolaris
-	Privilege management: RBAC and Least Privilege; how it compares to/why it's superior to sudo
-	Jim Mauro's recent book on Solaris Internals

For More Information

Stay informed by subscribing to the STLOSUG mailing list. We value your input and look forward to hearing from you.

You may also email Jeff Logullo (jeff at logullo dot com) for more information.