Here are the pictures I took yesterday at the monthly meeting of the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group.

It was a very interesting meeting, actually. Alan DuBoff started it asking for collaboration for porting KDE to OpenSolaris. From his point of view, besides being a better desktop, KDE is more friendly than GNOME accepting changes upstream.

Then Eric Saxe gave a talk on Scheduling and CPU Management on OpenSolaris: kernel internals and user-land commands.

Afterwards I discussed that KDE idea with Alan, but I couldn't agree with him on everything. I'm all for porting KDE to OpenSolaris, but I don't think it would be possible to support it (ABI stability and C++ incompatibilities are still huge problems - besides all the politics).

So, I'm happy I attended. It was good fun: we listened a great talk and had long discussions on OpenSolaris and other F/OSS technologies (in fact, we left the auditorium around 11:30pm). :-)