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Wednesday February 07, 2007

Look for me at the OpenSolaris Developers Conference

Just a heads up. I will be at the OpenSolaris Developers Conference in Berlin, Germany on 2 Mar, 2007. I will be presenting on my work Porting MythTV to OpenSolaris and the Mac Mini.

This is actually a personal project that I have been working on in my spare time. I wanted to put together a set-top box type system based on OpenSolaris. I used to work on set-top box software and the systems that I was building my code on top of weren't that reliable or that nice to program for. I figured that OpenSolaris would be an improvement and started the project to see if it would work.

I ended up picking the Apple Mac Mini as the set-top box hardware (yeah, I know, it is a computer, but it is a small form factor box and it has a DVD slot as well as an IR remote) and MythTV as the application (so I wouldn't have to start from scratch on the PVR, DVD, OSD, et. al. code). To find out more, come see me in Berlin. I can't wait to see how it works out!

Anyway, I submitted the idea for a paper on the project on a whim to the OpenSolaris Developers Conference after the conference asked me, as lead for the Seattle OpenSolaris User Group, to post the Call-For-Papers to my user group's mailing list. To my surprise, they accepted it. So, now I am spending lots and lots of time trying to get the project in a state that is suitable to present.

One thing that came out of this work is the complicated process that I came up with for installing OpenSolaris on a Mac Mini so you can still multiboot into MacOS to play Backgammon or something. I'll be blogging about that soon.

After the Developers Conference, watch this space for an announcement for a community project to finish off my MythTV port.

That's it and I hope to see you in Berlin.

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