20080514 Wednesday May 14, 2008

Bay Area OpenSolaris Presentations

I will be speaking around the Bay Area, the first of which is be BayLISA tomorrow, Thurs. May 15th, at Yahoo in Sunnyvale.

 I will be handing out some OpenSolaris usb sticks which have the OpenSolaris image on it, so you can install from it. These are really handy, and a nice piece of swag. Jesse Silvers did a great job at getting these made up, a very nice design. Also joining me will be John Weeks to give some backing on the FMAC project. Don't miss these events, should be a good time for all.

 BayLISA - Thursday, May 15th at Yahoo in Sunnyvale

Silicon Valley Linux Users Group (SVLUG) - Wednesday, June 4th at Symantec/Veritas in Mountain View

East Bay Linux Users Group (EBLUG) - Wednesday, June 18th at Hurricane Electric in Fremont

Hope to see you folks there! Especially look forward to seeing some of my friends in the Linux communities.

 

( May 14 2008, 11:25:52 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]
20080429 Tuesday April 29, 2008

You are signed up for the OpenSolaris summit, aren't you?

Also, don't forget to sign up for the OpenSolaris summit in Santa Cruz this coming weekend.

You can sign up and find out more info at the following URL: 

 http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Summit

( Apr 29 2008, 12:26:11 AM PDT ) Permalink

CommunityOne closing in on May 5th

CommunityOne is very close, on May 5th, and there's some special announcements to happen, so if you're not doing anything please show up. It's on Monday for JavaOne, but has several sessions for OpenSolaris.

Please see the schedule here:

http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/pdfs/CommunityOne2008_agenda.pdf

There's gonna be a lot of festivity and fun, with several events in the evening planned for the community.

( Apr 29 2008, 12:21:11 AM PDT ) Permalink
20080422 Tuesday April 22, 2008

[SVOSUG] Project Nitro, Venue Change to Mansion/SCA07, Thursday 04/24/08

For this month's meeting we have a change of venue, just across the road from the Santa Clara Auditorium, we will be meeting in SCA07, known as the Mansion. This is a very special venue, and I will remind our community that we will be using one of California historical buildings, no different than the auditorium, but this is where the Governor stayed when he visited the Agnew campus. Sun did a wonderful job at restoring this building, and we would like to ensure that we are able to continue using it in the future. As such, please help us "tread lightly" inside.

The rooms are smaller in the Mansion, but there are more than one, so we can spread out if needed. The intent is that it will be easier to manage the lighting for the video and hold the meeting in a different, more intimate setting. The alarm can't be disarmed, so you will need to knock on the door and one of us will open it for you. The Mansion is located almost directly across from the Santa Clara Auditorium, in the smaller building located to the left of the large structure directly across the street. Use the same parking along Palm, and in the parking lots. The Mansion also has an ice machine in the kitchen, where we can host the beverages and snacks for the meeting.

The first presentation will be given by Jonathan Chew and Sasha Kolbasov, explaining Project Nitro. Project Nitro was a performance project to speed up the builds, to better parellelize the build process to use the system more efficiently. Build times have dropped down on x86 and sparc both, and I'll let Jonathan and Sasha give real world numbers. I'm seeing about 15-20 percent improvement on x86 and more on sparc myself.

Jonathan and Sasha will explain to you how they went about this project, which is most applicable to many processes on OpenSolaris where similar improvements could also be achieved.

We will be broadcasting over the web through ustream, and you can get the embedded window on the SVOSUG project page of OpenSolaris.org. Please join us over the web if you can't make it in person.

 When: Thursday, April 24, 2008
Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Auditorium (SCA07, the Mansion)
 What: Project Nitro, better performance through better parellelization
 Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm

Google Maps link

OpenSolaris SVOSUG project page link

Hope to see you there, and if not, hope you see us!

( Apr 22 2008, 02:16:14 AM PDT ) Permalink
20080327 Thursday March 27, 2008

[SVOSUG] Introduction to FMAC, Thursday 03/27/08 Tonight!

**** REMINDER **** REMINDER **** REMINDER **** REMINDER ****

This meeting is tonight at 7:30pm, 6 hours from now (aprox). I screwed up
and bad put 3/28 on the original message, but most know we meet on Thurs.
Sorry for any inconvenience I may have caused.

Please join us on the web if you're not local, for tonight's meeting.

You can get tonight's presentation at this link: http://blogs.sun.com/aland/resource/FMAC_intro.pdf

( Mar 27 2008, 01:27:55 PM PDT ) Permalink
20080325 Tuesday March 25, 2008

[SVOSUG] Introduction to FMAC, Thursday 03/27/08

NOTE: I made a mistake on the date, should be 03/27/08, sorry about that. It is Thursday night. 

This month's meeting brings us John Weeks to speak about a new and interesting technology for OpenSolaris. You will hear about the Flexible Mandatory Access Control, a recent project which seeks to add the Flux Advanced Security Kernel (Flask) architecture and Type Enforcement (TE) to OpenSolaris.

Joining John Weeks as a leader of this project is Stephen Smalley, the architect of Flask/TE.

FMAC can be read about on the OpenSolaris website at:

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/fmac/

John Weeks works in the SunFed division of Sun Microsystems, and some of you might recognize his name. He was the other engineer that worked with me to assist in bringing OpenOffice and Mozilla products to Solaris x86 before Sun was able to provide them in the base operating system. Things have changed, but John has been there in the trenches trying to provide the community with better software. FMAC shows promise as being yet another great technology which John is trying to bring to your OpenSolaris systems.

In addtition to John's presention, I will be giving a short presentation on a QuickStart docment which John created to assist folks in being able to install, setup the tools, grab the sources, build, and install OpenSolaris to an existing system. I will be putting the document up on
Genunix soon under a wiki so that we can all add and tailor this document to accomodate the various communities at large. This is targeted as a QuickStart specific, not as a comprehensive document. Look for this OpenSolaris Build QuickStart coming to a wiki near you soon!

 When: Thursday, March 28, 2008
Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Auditorium (SCA03 upstairs)
 What: Introduction to Flexible Mandatory Access Control (FMAC)
 Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm

  Web: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/svosug/

Hope to see you there, and if not, hope you see us!

( Mar 25 2008, 02:53:16 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [1]
20080228 Thursday February 28, 2008

[SVOSUG] Update on Virtualization along with OpenSolaris Governance! 02/28 Tonight!

Just a reminder that tonight is the meeting. Please feel free to join us on the web if you're not local. ( Feb 28 2008, 01:24:39 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [1]
20080226 Tuesday February 26, 2008

[SVOSUG] Update on Virtualization along with OpenSolaris Governance! 02/28

This month we have a very special meeting which brings Tim Marsland and Todd Clayton are back at SVOSUG giving an update on Virtualization.

With Virtual Box on the scene, the OpenSolaris virtual solutions provide more and better ways to connect OpenSolaris to other environments. This is a very exciting space and both Tim and Todd have both been instrumental in driving virtualization in OpenSolaris.

Along with this special update on virtualization, we will also have Ben Rockwood, community member and long supporter of OpenSolaris, speaking on OpenSolaris Governance. Ben is always entertaining to listen to, and has been involved in the OGB, so I'd like to welcome Ben to give his
perspective.

We will be broadcasting over the web through ustream.tv, and hope to have things running a bit smoother this month. We hope to have 2 cameras with one providing an overview of the meeting, and the other will pan/zoom.

Please feel free to ask questions through the chat, you do not have to be registered or logged in to use it.

 When: Thursday, February 28, 2008
Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Auditorium (SCA03 upstairs)
 What: OpenSolaris Update on Virtualization
 Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm

http://ustream.tv/channel/svosug
http://ustream.tv/channel/svosug-presentation

( Feb 26 2008, 12:50:00 AM PST ) Permalink
20080206 Wednesday February 06, 2008

Installing Studio Built KDE 3.4.3 w/script

Ok, KDE is getting going and KDE 4 is at least compiling on OpenSolaris, but we have a ways to go before we have a usable system.

In the meantime, I have a script that I created to help install KDE 3.4.3 from the Sunfreeware site, since it is available to anyone on the inet, to pull the Studio built KDE 3.4.3 and install on your computer. I realize this is a bit dated, but it is the most recent build we have that was done with Sun's Studio compiler. This is important if you plan to use plugins, since most plugins (including flash and java) are compiled with Sun Studio. Because of this, you can't use those plugins with a gcc built KDE, AFAIK.

It is possible that an error in the user/group for KDEkderequired-343 will warn you of the error, but you can tell it to continue. I added in an additional argument to pkgadd, passing a -n, but not sure if that will supress the warning or not, and don't have time to retest...This should help at least get the packages and get this installed, even if you need to tell the script to continue.

You can get the script at this link. Let me know if you try it and how it works for you.

*** DISCLAIMER ***

This script doesn't have much error checking, and it is possible that if you break out of the script that it will download duplicates and the matching names won't be valid files.

 This script also assumes that you have installed en_US.UTF-8, so if you use a different flavor of UTF-8, change to suite.

 Also, this is for x86/amd64, so if you have a sparc box, change the script to suit.

*** End of DISCLAIMER ***  

( Feb 06 2008, 07:31:46 AM PST ) Permalink
20080122 Tuesday January 22, 2008

[SVOSUG] Jan. Meeting, Indian Preview 1

Hope all had a great New Year in the OpenSolaris community, this year has prospects of being a great years for us, and I hope we can continue to bring good content to the community. We can all help each other with sharing the information better.

I will not be opening the call-in phone, since we will be broadcasting over ustream.tv instead. I do not see a reason to use the toll free call-in as I am charged for the usage, and I think we're better off with ustream.tv. If you really have no other means and do want to call-in on the toll free number, let me know and I'll start it, otherwise let's forge foward and move to the inet. This also allows everyone to join in all countries, with an Internet connection.

We are working out some of the rough edges, but hope to leverage more video this year, and please provide feedback in the chat area. One of the nice things about the chat is that we can do that while the presentation is going on. Please offer your comments and questions, we can pass them on to the speaker, and collaborate together online while the meeting is going on.

This months SVOSUG will be a live demonstration and discussion of the Indiana preview 1 installation, configuration and upgrade. Indiana is a live CD and repository model that allows a machine to be easily installed while also providing a user profile that is more familiar to Linux users.

The presentation will be given by James Hughes, Fellow and VP of Sun Microsystems. Currently James is the CTO of the Solaris Operating System. He has developed products, standards and published papers in the areas of Storage, Networking, Security and Cryptography. He is formerly with StorageTek, Network Systems and Control Data Corp, and has over 32 years in the computer industry. For more information see:

http://research.sun.com/people/hughes

 When: Thursday, January 24, 2008
Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Auditorium (SCA03 upstairs)
 What: Indiana Preview 1
 Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm

  Web: http://ustream.tv/channel/svosug

Hope to see you there, and if not, hope you see us!

( Jan 22 2008, 11:23:10 PM PST ) Permalink
20080116 Wednesday January 16, 2008

Adriaan DeGroot - KDE4 OpenSolaris Presentation 4:00pm PST (California) today! 01/16/08

 KDE4 runs on OpenSolaris thanks to several folks in the community, and I would like to thank not only, but certainly including Stefan Teleman, Adriaan DeGroot, and Lukas Oboril.

 There is quite a bit of work to do, but various people are showing interest and I'm confident we're gonna have a kick @$$ KDE that will drop onto OpenSolaris, so don't be fooled that some of the apps are running, but I must say it is progress for our community to come this far as a first step.

You can watch this presentation as it will be broadcast over ustream.tv at this link at http://ustream.tv/channel/kde-opensolaris-presentation from the OpenSolaris Holy Land (sic) in Menlo Park at 4:00pm PST (Pacific Standard Time) on Wednesday, January 16, 2008. Please join us from anywhere in the world that you may be, you are only an Internet connection away!

DISCLAIMER: I have not used ustream.tv from MPK, there is a slight chance we can't get through, but I don't think so, it's going over the browser.

  When: Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Where: http://ustream.tv/channel/kde-opensolaris-presentation
 What: KDE4 on OpenSolaris - Adriaan DeGroot, VP of the KDE Foundation Board
 Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm (Pacific Standard Time)

As a teaser, you can see a screenshot here, or better on Stefan  Teleman's blog at http://steleman.smugmug.com/gallery/4147491

kde4 on opensolaris

Hope to see you this afternoon, 4:00pm-5:30pm PST (01/16/08) 

 

( Jan 16 2008, 05:11:10 AM PST ) Permalink
20071220 Thursday December 20, 2007

[SVOSUG] Dec. Meeting, Tonight! help to create streaming media!

***** REMINDER ***** REMINDER ***** REMINDER ***** REMINDER ****

<Breaking News>

Flip ordered ice for the meeting, so we will have a definite coolness
about the meeting.;-)

</Breaking News>

We will have some type of broadcast at:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/svosug

This will prove to be much better next month most likely, when we have a
decent presentation, but we can try some various things to see what works
and what doesn't work from the room we hold the meetings in.

Please feel free to visit the link above during the meeting time,
7:30pm-10:00pm. I'm having some trouble with the camcorder I got
recentely, and still trying to figure that out. The internal isight and
ibot 1394 cam both work on my MacBook, not sure what is up with the
camcorder yet.

I was thinking about this...it seems that there is only capability to have
a single stream on ustream, but what if we created a page on
OpenSolaris.org which just held 15 or 20 embedded tags that point to the
ustream show. It might be possible to leverage their video broadcasting
service to hold a video conference between the numbers of embedded windows
that were put on the webpage.

Even without that capability, we can do a lot with ustream, IMO, and the
ability for folks to ask questions through the chat is a plus as well.

Please provide feedback on how you like or don't like this service.

Here's the detailed information I left out on some of the announcements:

 When: Thursday, December 20, 2007
Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Auditorium (SCA03 upstairs)
 What: Help create streaming media, share a holiday treat!
 Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm

( Dec 20 2007, 04:20:44 AM PST ) Permalink
20071219 Wednesday December 19, 2007

[SVOSUG] Dec. Meeting, help to create streaming media!

This month we're going to try something a bit different, as it is December and our normal meeting day is in the middle of the Sun holiday break, it leaves this month in an odd spot (as it does last month as well). We have some great stuff coming for the new year though, and Jan. will have Jim Hugues talking on Indiana, and Feb. will have Sarah Jelnick talking on Caiman/Dwarf. Stay tuned for this...but for this month...

I would like to create some streaming media on topics related to OpenSolaris. Are you doing something kinda cool on OpenSolaris, using Xen, or running BrandZ? Are you using Zones for something cool, or running a cool zraid usb setup like csi:munich? Please join us and share something with our community that you're doing on OpenSolaris. Even if you're involved in OpenSolaris, join us to wish the community a happy holiday...and tell them what you do, or how you can help them with OpenSolaris.

I will be bringing a couple camcorders, and encourage anyone else with one to bring it along as well, the more video we have to select from the better.

It might be possible to start broadcasting the meetings, and I created an account over on www.ustream.tv for SVOSUG. I was tipped to this site by Bob Palowoda, SVOSUG member at large, that we might be able to use this
service as a way to broadcast the meetings.

Stay tuned if we can put this together for the meeting on Thurs.

Maybe it will be possible to broadcast video of the meetings on ustream??? We'll need to investigate a bit more before we can say!

Also, I would like to welcome others to bring along a treat and share with the other SVOSUG members, in the holiday spirit. While it looked like we wouldn't have ice for this meeting, James Liu informed me that we can get ice over across at the mansion, so I'll bring along a cooler and get some ice before the meeting, and maybe I can convince my wife that the SVOSUG folks are indeed good folks that deserve a holiday treat, she's gullible in that regard, and will probably bake some type of treat!;-)

(I will update with ustream info, if I can get it working)

 When: Thursday, December 20, 2007
Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Auditorium (SCA03 upstairs)
 What: Help create streaming media, share a holiday treat!
 Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm

Call-in Info

Toll Free: 866-545-5227
Intnl/pay: 865-673-6950
Conference: 809-64-14

Hope to see you there!

( Dec 19 2007, 02:04:29 AM PST ) Permalink
20071127 Tuesday November 27, 2007

[SVOSUG] Multilevel Web Services w/Trusted Extensions, Nov. 29th

Sorry for a late notice and due to the holiday schedule we're having our
meeting a week late (Dec. meeting will be 1 week early also next month).

We are pleased to announce John Weeks, presenting Multilevel Web Services
which utilize Trusted Extensions on OpenSolaris.

Have you ever wanted to dynamically display data in a web browser,
depending on which user is logged in? This is a very interesting aspect of
security, and one that presents a lot of opportunity for folks to
implement in their own applications.

What is nice about this is that it uses sources that are being distributed
through OpenSolaris, which leverage the JINI technology. John Weeks will
explain how he implemented such services, and will show you how you the
nuts and bolts of how it is accomplished.

As a bonus, should time permit, John Weeks will also bring along a
mini-ITX system which runs Solaris 10u3 on a compact flash card. This is a
standard off the shelf system, utilizing about $300 worth of parts to form
a system that runs on a typical 4gb compact flash card. This system is
very quiet, has low cost, and with OpenSolaris a high reliability. If you
have been interested in putting together such a system, you will
definitely be interested in seeing this small box.

 When: Thursday, November 29, 2007
Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Auditorium (SCA03 upstairs)
 What: Multilevel Web Services Utilizing Trusted Extentions
 Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm

If you can't be there in person, please feel free to call-in.

Call-in Info

Toll Free: 866-545-5227
Intnl/pay: 865-673-6950
Conference: 809-64-14

Hope to see you there!


( Nov 27 2007, 05:52:50 PM PST ) Permalink Comments [1]
20071022 Monday October 22, 2007

[SVOSUG] OSS Integration into OpenSolaris, this Thurs. 10/25

This Thursday, Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group is proud to announce,
Dev Mazumdar of 4-Front Technologies speaking on the opensound integration
into OpenSolaris.

Find out the details from Dev himself, and find out what type of audio
support OSS will add to OpenSolaris.

It was not long ago we had very little audio on Solaris, and today we have
pretty good support. But there is still a lot of nice features that we're
missing. Join us and find out for yourself just what some of those
capabilities are, the schedule to putback, what has been done, and what
still needs to be done.

Google Maps:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=4030+George+Sellon+Circle,+Santa+Clara,$

Santa Clara Campus Map:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/aland/scasj_dirmap.pdf

Hope to see you there!


 When: Thursday, October 25, 2007
Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Auditorium (SCA03 upstairs)
 What: OSS Integration into OpenSolaris
 Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm

If you can't be there in person, please feel free to call-in.

Call-in Info

Toll Free: 866-545-5227
Intnl/pay: 865-673-6950
Conference: 809-64-14

NOTE: the slides are available here!

( Oct 22 2007, 10:21:42 AM PDT ) Permalink
20070927 Thursday September 27, 2007

[SVOSUG] Kernel TCP/IP evolution, Tonight! Thurs., Sept. 27th, 7:30pm

Just a reminder that tonight is the meeting.

You can get the slides for the Kernel TCP/IP Evolution at this link

You can get the slides for the ATS presentation at this link.

( Sep 27 2007, 02:43:03 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [1]
20070925 Tuesday September 25, 2007

One package per community member?

There has been some discussion recentely on the OpenSolaris-summit mailing list about how open the OpenSolaris project really is, and some have provided comments both ways.

In the same way that OpenSolaris has a different meaning to different people, I beleieve we have the same problem with trying to view how open the system is.

In the sense of what OpenSolaris is comprised of today, or what Sun has traditionally called ON (the OS and Networking components), this could be viewed as not being open by many.  But if we look at the space outside of the kernel, there is a great deal of opportunity for community members to provide contributions.  This area is just opening up for the first time with some of the recent work that is being done.  Most notably in regards to packaging and the distribution of packages.  

If we look at the kernel components, do we even want to make it easier for members to contribute?  I don't think so, in fact I believe it should be more difficult.  To date it has been mostly Sun folks that have contributed the bulk of code in that space, and that should be expected.  The engineers that have managed the code over the years are still managing it to date, and this is a good thing from my perspective.  They know the code better and have worked on it more than others, it absolutely makes sense for them to do as they have done until more expertise comes from outside. I don't see how they could have allowed more of the community to participate more in the kernel, given some of Sun's time constraints.

The bigger question we must ask ourself is how can the rest of us participate and help contribute to a system that will have the software on it that we desire, and how can we do this in a way that we can all help each other?  

What if we set a goal that each community member should contribute at least one package. I realize we would never get every single member to contribute a package, but it's not a bad goal to have.

If we could get a large number of members to contribute at least one package, we will soon have a great deal of common packages.  If we had a set of common packages, all distributions could use them, wether it be Sun's Indiana, Nexenta, Schillix, Belenix, Blastwave, pkgsrc, Mar-Tux, Gentoo, etc...this is very similar to the model that exists today between Ubuntu and Debian. 

If we step back and look at the system as a whole, the kernel space is a very important space, without doubt. But so are many of those other pieces of software that we don't have today, many of which reside outside of kernel space. This includes documentation and localization as well, everything will only help all of us as a whole.

With the addition of the new packaging system coming, the community as a whole will need to solve the same problem of getting software in package format so that it can be used with all distributions alike. Helping to port and package that software to OpenSolaris will only help all distributions. That can only be good for all of us in the community no matter which OpenSolaris distribution we select to run on our machines.

What will this get the folks that do contribute a package?  Not much actually, but it will allow all of us to use and share those packages alike.  That is actually quite a noble status to acheive, or should be, for any community member...to have contributed at least one package. 

One package per community member is not a bad goal to have, even if we never acheive such a goal...the more packages the better.

( Sep 25 2007, 04:06:07 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [2]

[SVOSUG] Kernel TCP/IP evolution, Thurs., Sept. 27th, 7:30pm

This Thursday, Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group is proud to have Erik Nordmark back, one of Sun's Distinguished Engineers giving a presentation on the Kernel TCP/IP evolution. There's a lot of nice stuff that is going on in the OpenSolaris kernel in regards to networking, with efforts to make the code more understandable, lower the latency, and a variety of API
changes including the Crossbow technology that will bring virtual NICs. We have been fortunate to hear about some of this technology. Some has gone back recentely, and some will be putback shortly. Erik spoke on IP instances about a year ago, and Sunay Tripathi spoke on Crossbow just before that. These technologies also play an important role with Xen, which went back in build 75.

In addition, Tom Kirkley, of the compiler group will be giving a short presentation on the Automatic Tuning and Troubleshooting System (ATS) which is a binary reoptimization and recompilation tool that be be used for tuning and troubleshooting applications, without the use of the original source code. ATS slides are available at this link.

Google Maps
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=4030+George+Sellon+Circle,+Santa+Clara,+CA+95054&ie=UTF8&z=16&om=1&iwloc=addr

Santa Clara Campus Map
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/aland/scasj_dirmap.pdf

Hope to see you there!

 When: Thursday, Sept 27, 2007
Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Auditorium (SCA03 upstairs)
 What: Kernel TCP/IP Evolution, ATS
 Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm

Call-in Info

Toll Free: 866-545-5227
Intnl/pay: 865-673-6950
Conference: 809-64-14

( Sep 25 2007, 01:38:26 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [1]
20070820 Monday August 20, 2007

[SVOSUG] Desktop Update - Thurs. August 23rd SCA03 7:30pm

It's that time of month for the SVOSUG meeting again, and we have something a little different than our normal type meetings, and as of recent I've been getting requests to show compiz at the user group meeting and/or show it running on Solaris/OpenSolaris.

This month we'll be doing an presentation on the Desktop, where have we come from, what we have, and where will we go. To help in presenting that will be Alan Coopersmith (OGB) and Stuart Kreitman from the X team, with myself to possibly do some fill-in and/or show my laptop which is running build 70 with compiz. I will also show a brief demo of the Network Auto-Magic in action, hopefully we'll have active wifi as we have had.

Here's my desktop, running on a stock build 70 with Erwann's compiz install script package with extras, including the cool burning transition. Please try to install this to a recent build of Solaris Express and give it a go, let us know if you have any problems. 

This is my standard desktop, KDE 3.4.3 built and packaged by long time Solaris/OpenSolaris supporter, Stefan Teleman. The package are available for download from sunfreeware. I'm running compiz 0.5.0 with it. Works nicely. 

(linky-pic for the visually impaired) 

my solaris desktop

 

burning transition

 cocky window

wobbly action

 When: Thursday, Augutst 23, 2007
Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Auditorium (SCA03 upstairs)
 What: Desktop Update
 Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm

Sun provided PDF:

  Map: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/aland/scasj_dirmap.pdf

Click Here for Google Maps


(URL provided for convenience)
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=4030+George+Sellon+Circle,+Santa+Clara,+CA+95054&ie=UTF8&z=16&om=1&iwloc=addr

Hope to see you there!

Call-in Info

Toll Free: 866-545-5227
Intnl/pay: 865-673-6950
Conference: 809-64-14

 

( Aug 20 2007, 06:59:39 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [1]
20070813 Monday August 13, 2007

MP3 from last month's meeting (Scheduling & Processor Mgmt)

Glynn Foster was kind enough to convert the audio to mp3 format, so anyone who would like to download it can get it from this link:

Here is the URI if the link doesn't work on your system.

 http://dlc.sun.com/osol/advocacy/svosug/svosug-scheduling-processor-management-080107.mp3
 

( Aug 13 2007, 02:46:35 PM PDT ) Permalink