18th Irish OpenSolaris User Group Meeting
We've got the venue confirmed: here are details of the upcoming Irish OpenSolaris User Group meeting:
| Topic | General OpenSolaris Discussions |
| Date | Thursday 29th January 2009 |
| Time | 19:30 |
| Location | The Vaults |
Look forward to seeing you there! If you can help out with equipment or have ideas for presentations, or just feel like saying "hi", drop mail to the mailing list.
Hello, Mr. Foster,
My apologies if this is not the right place to leave comments, but I wanted to say thank you for the information on the blog, and keep up the excellent work on zfs, auto snapshots, etc. I also wanted to echoe some of what you wrote about "think clients" like Sun Ray, in whatever versions they may be now. Years ago, at a facility that shall remain nameless, I remember the thin clients which required an electronic key card or chip to access any client. Put in the card, and your "desktop" appeared, files, processess, jobs, pids, everything, just as if you had never left your previous thin client, regardless of the physical location or machine. This had many advantages, but security was uppermost ("nameless" facilities have this thing about security; go figure). I don't know what happened to the thin client market, or if it will see a comeback, but it has many, many advantages.
I just moved from a virtualized OpenSolaris to a bare metal install in my office, and I must say it rocks. I'm trying to figure out how to get zfs to do what "hard links" does on other file systems, and auto-snap is pretty close, and you seem to have scripted something very much like it. As you mentioned some time ago, I don't know why the tech and IT media can be so negative about Sun. You even see very bitter complaints about Sun using CDDL and not GPL. But so what? OpenSolaris is quite an achievement, zfs is perhaps the most valuable bit of open source code out there, and anyone can use it, and test it, and try to improve it (and no, I have no idea if CDDL or GPL allows or prohibits this).
I'm also envious of the Irish OSUG. You have beer; that says it all. It looks like Smithwicks, or Black and Tan. I'm in Minnesota in the states, it's below zero, and Dublin looks fantastic from where I sit. I have to see if there is a local OSUG here; I'll bring my own beer, if necessary.
Congratulations on your recent happy additions, and please keep up the good work.
G.W. Bynum
Posted by G.W. Bynum on January 29, 2009 at 08:06 AM GMT #