Jim Walker: Sun Software Engineer

Lets say you need to build and test a cool new OpenSolaris app and all you have is an iPhone. What do you do?

It turns out you can access advanced Sun servers and reserve a test zone using Safari and use SSH terminal apps like TouchTerm (free) all from an iPhone. Granted, this isn't the most ergonomic environment, but if you just need to kick off a new build or test run or fix that one character typo that caused your build to fail, it's fine. And it's amazing that a little handheld device can control big servers around the world.

(Now, unto remote terminal access using VNC

Today we released the development zone interface and opened access to the OpenSolaris Test Farm to all OpenSolaris users.

This month's FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on Thursday, May 31, 2007. Brad Lewis and Tim Jacobson will give a presentation on Sun Studio 12 Compilers and Tools. In addition, we will be giving an OpenSolaris Update, and will be having an InstallFest. So, if you want help installing an OpenSolaris distribution, backup your laptop and bring it to the meeting!

!! FREE OpenSolaris Starter Kits and Solaris Express Developer Edition DVDs. !!
About the presentation:
OpenSolaris includes the best package of compilers and tools for developers. This free package is called Sun Studio and version 12 will be released in June. This presentation will give an overview of the components of Sun Studio and new improvements for version 12. In addition, there will be several short demonstrations using performance and diagnostic tools.

The presentation will be posted on http://frosug.org prior to the meeting.

About our presenters:
Brad Lewis and Tim Jacobson work in the Performance Library Group (Perflib). Perflib is a collection of Mathematical Routines for Scientific Computing. These routines are custom written to obtain the highest performance on Sun hardware for both stand-alone and parallel systems.

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Meeting Details:

When: Thursday, May 31, 2007

Times:
6:00pm - 6:30pm Doors open and Pizza
6:30pm - 6:45pm OpenSolaris Update
6:45pm - 8:30pm Sun Studio 12 Compiler

Where:
Sun Broomfield Campus
Building 1 - Conference Center
500 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO 80021

Dialin: 866-545-5220
Access Code: 9303067

The meeting is free and open to the public.

Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the beginning of the meeting. Please RSVP to frosug-rsvp(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org in order to help us plan for food and setup access to the Sun campus.

We hope to see you there!
Thanks,
FROSUG

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Future Meeting Plans:

June 28, 2007:
Bonnie Corwin presents "OpenSolaris: Where We Are and Where We're Going". In addition, we will celebrate OpenSolaris's two year Anniversary!!

If you have ideas for topics or have a topic you would like to present, send them to: ug-frosug(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org

Here's a picture of the FROSUG booth (thanks Bonnie) we staffed at the Project Blackbox tours in Broomfield on April 13th. We handed out SXDE DVDs and OpenSolaris Starter Kits and informed people about OpenSolaris and the FROSUG meetings. Members of the Front Range Open Solaris User Group were at the booth throughout the day. There was a lot of interest in the Blackbox and getting Solaris on laptops and desktops. It was cool having a laptop (thanks Lisa) with SXDE installed that people could play with.


Here's a picture of the Blackbox.