OpenSolaris and Copper Pots
Well, one out of three down. The flight from LAX provided plenty of time to upgrade my Toshiba to the latest Solaris Express build. The Toshiba has been in the shop for a while so I have quite a bit of catching up to do. Here are just a couple of my favorite OpenSolaris projects and communities that have seen quite a bit of recent development.
Project Crossbow is all about providing the building blocks for network virtualization and resource control by virtualizing the stack and NIC around any service (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NFS, etc.), protocol or Virtual machine. So lets say you wanted to join the OpenSolaris Xen Community and wanted to give each virtual server native wire-speed access to your physical server's InfiniBand interface. Project Crossbow is where to start. Of course if you are interested in performance, you are probably interested in observability, so be sure to check out the tools available from the OpenSolaris observability community. I'll have plenty to keep me busy on the flight home. But for now, I had better go do my shopping. And yes, Dehillerin is definitely worth the trip for anyone who is into cooking.