Addressing "anything Sun", that is: anything I come across in my role as a Systems Practice Solutions Architect. Your mileage may vary ;-) Mousebits: Bart Muijzer's Blog

In one of my latest blogs entries I promised there was more great news to come about the distribution of OpenSolaris 2008.05 in The Netherlands. Well, here goes:

The June edition of c't Magazine has an article 'Solaris contra Linux' in which OpenSolaris is tested and described, and comes with a bootable DVD that carries OpenSolaris 2008.05 (amongst a pile of other software). The direct link is here  -- sorry, it's in Dutch only.

c't Magazine is distributed in a large (tens of thousands) amount of copies in Holland and Germany. The idea of distributing OpenSolaris with this magazine was born at the NLUUG Spring Conference and Menno Lageman, co-Sunnie, Solaris resource management guru and NLOSUG core member worked with the people of c't Magazine to create the bootable DVD.  Again, this shows what good relationships, sense of community and several hours of personal time from Menno can lead to!

From the whispersuite: Menno might blog about this in the near future... 

NLOSUG will take a short summer break but behind the screens we keep going.
Happy (summer)hacking!

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On Thursday January 25, 2007, we organized the second NLOSUG get-together. This time we emailed the invitations 3 weeks in advance instead of one week, and we had about 50 people registering. The agenda for this meeting is on www dot nlosug dot org. Actually, 37 people showed up in real life. In marketing terms, a no-show percentage of 26%, or -more positive- 74% did show up!!

As usual we had a marvelous program with 3 topics this time. I kicked-off with a brief overview on the NLOSUG past and current activities. What's New In Solaris 10 and Beyond provided a concise overview of major updates planned in Solaris 10 and Solaris Next (thanks Peter!). And DTrace by Example described not only the DTrace framework but also linked it all together using a real case as example.

The presentations of the evening are available on the NLOSUG website.

I can't emphasize enough that none of this is at all possible without the help of other enthousiastic people around me!

When in doubt, share. Or, translated towards the NLOSUG: When in Doubt, join the NLOSUG!!
 

Oh, and speaking of sharing, please have a look at the program for the first OpenSolaris Developers Conference in Berlin.

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