Wednesday April 27, 2005 1st OpenSolaris User Group Report
The 1st OpenSolaris User Group meeting took place yesterday evening, or is that earlier this evening, time is relative...;-)
There was about 40-50 folks that showed up, all of which left with a t-shirt at minimum, plus other SWAG. All in all, this was a pretty good showing for our first meeting, and the comments from the attendees were very positive.
Here are some pictures:
Jan kicked it off with a demonstration of the new boot architecture. Here he's showing the non-verbose version of the new boot architecture!
Chris Baker, Solaris x86 Product Manager proudly showing off his Sun/AMD shirt!
Bart Smaalders, Solaris Kernel Performance engineer, along with Tim Marsland, CTO of the Open Platform Group and co-architect of the AMD64 port of Solaris look on from the back of the room.
Dan "the birdman" Price, Solaris Kernel Engineer was there to help field questions.
Bryan Cantrill, the ace of DTrace, with the standard issue Ferrari running Solaris on AMD64 in mobile form.
We were fortunate to have Ben Rockwood there to take video, which we'll be working to get online for others to stream.
Bob Palowoda is not actually sleeping here, this is how Bob looks when he's thinking!
Liane Praza speaking on the Service Management Facility. I must say for SMF being such a controversial feature added to Solaris 10, it has been most well received, and there was even a comment to Liane of, "it's about friggin' time". Good to see that folks like this technology, it is really this type of technology that makes Solaris what it is today.
Alan Coopersmith, Solaris X Server Engineer.
Stuart Kreitman, Solaris X Server Engineer who works with AlanC.
Lloyd Staley, Adobe Systems.
Jan and Bryan having a friendly boot-off between old and new boot!
Ben Rockwood was taking pictures also.
Liane during a piece of her presentation, the SMF tour.
Liane describing things in detail, and fielding questions from the audience.
Thanks to Phillip "Flip" Russell, we were able to get beverages/snacks for the attendees.
Chris Baker talking with David O'Brien of AMD.
Phillip "Flip" Russell. Much thanks go to Phillip for helping me organize and assist with the grunt work. I'm sure that the attendees appreciated his hard work.
Max Bruning, device driver writer extrodinaire, and instructor at SunU.
Eric Bruno, Flip, and Simon Phipps, Sun Open Source Evangelist.
Tex, paying close attention to what Liane is saying.
Well, we hope to see all of you again next month when Darren Moffat, Solaris Security Engineer explains how to harden up Solaris from a view as a developer as well as an administrator. Darren will be including information on using the Role Based Access Control (RBAC) as well, one of the Solaris 10 additions. Hope to see some more of you as well, don't be shy now!;-)
( Apr 27 2005, 04:15:46 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [8]
Posted by Laurent on April 27, 2005 at 01:47 PM PDT #
Posted by JM on April 27, 2005 at 03:52 PM PDT #
Laurent,
Sun does plan to hlep others form user groups, and I've been in contact with MarcL, in Belgium I believe. If that is close to you, that might work out for you. There are various groups that will forum out of this, but it will be up to the users to keep things going.
JM,
LloydS was there and mentioned you were having a hot night with heavy breathing...<LOL!> I completely understand, having 2 kids of my own, and please do take care of that first and foremost. Maybe we'll see you next month if the delivery doesn't come first!
Posted by Alan DuBoff on April 27, 2005 at 11:56 PM PDT #
Posted by Laurent on April 28, 2005 at 12:26 AM PDT #
Posted by CL on April 28, 2005 at 08:04 PM PDT #
Posted by patrick on May 12, 2005 at 07:46 PM PDT #
Posted by The Alethiometer on May 17, 2005 at 02:52 PM PDT #
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