Sydney OpenSolaris Meeting

Peter Lees did a rundown on what OpenSolaris is (and is not)

Brendan Gregg did a good talk around how Dtrace replaces all traditional performance tuing tools by running a nasty script on his laptop and then using both the old tools and dtrace to troubleshoot the problem to show the pros and cons. He also did a brief introduction to the Dtrace tools repository. (which can be found at Bigadmin

Alan Hargreaves then followed up with a look at how static probes work in Dtrace and then as a Surprise showed off Looking Glass running under Solaris x86! (using the pre prelease Nvidia driver of course.) I don't think I want to know how he got Java3d to run on his laptop.

A raffle was held to give away a copy of the Cluster blueprints book and the Solaris10 media kits were handed out (plus pizza and beer to finish off.) I'm certainly glad I went along and it was good to chat to people outside of Sun who are interested in Solaris.

Posted at 09:08AM Jun 01, 2005 by oz in General  |  Comments[1]