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OpenSolaris User Group for April 26th taking shape

I've been getting things setup for the first user group meeting on April 26th, which you might have read about on my blog, not long ago. We have an additional extra to add to the night (~20 minutes), which will be a short demonstration of the Solaris new boot architecture.

Those who are familiar with the current boot architecture have always been critical on Sun as to wether Solaris would be able to survive on x86/x64. Not that it was horrible, it does work, just that the current boot architecture was based on 25+ year old technology when the concept of real mode and protected mode were new ideas to the x86 industry.

Since the new boot architecture will lunge us forward and provide a lot of ease for developers who write device drivers, this is a very exciting addition coming into Solaris. One of the Sun engineers working on the new boot architecture will doing the demonstration.

This will of course be in addition to the main topic of the Service Management Facility (SMF) which Liane Praza will talk about.

Don't think the plans are not moving forward for the follow-up months, because things are in motion already. For the May meeting, we'll be having Darren Moffat give a presentation on Security, Hardening up Solaris 10, for the different perspectives of a user, admin, developer. This will also include using the Role Based Access Control which is built into Solaris 10. Don't forget that you can download Solaris 10 for free at this link.

The May meeting will sport a sneak preview of Project Looking Glass running on none other than one of our favorite systems, Solaris x64, given by the Solaris X team.;-)

The June meeting is also taking shape, and if all goes as planned, we'll be hearing from David Comay, who will be giving a presentation on Zones, or maybe as you know them as N1 Grid Containers.

We will always try to meet on the last Tuesday of each month, so mark your calendars and mark them early, this will be a user group that you'll want to attend! And who knows, we might also have some cool give aways![wink]

( Apr 09 2005, 12:13:58 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [2]