In September,
OpenSolaris community members presented to developer audiences at
conferences in China, Japan, Belgium, and the U.S., and also at user
groups in India, Venezuela, Australia, and the U.S. On the site, new
projects continue to be opened, code continues to be integrated,
documentation continues to be released, and OpenSolaris technology
continues to win awards.
Quote of the Month
Sun
took the bold step of open sourcing its crown jewel, Solaris, to take
the "proprietary" millstone from around its neck. Now Solaris is the
only one of the Big Three Unixes that is open source.
OpenSolaris participated at EuroOSCON Sept 18-21 in Brussels,
Belgium. For summaries see information from Gary Pennington (here,
here,
here),
Chris Beal (here),
and Martin Man (here,
here,
here)
For OpenSolaris at Tech Days in Shanghai and related education
events Sept. 22nd-24th, see information from Joey Guo (here,
here)
for a report and photos.
For OpenSolaris at Tech Days and related education events in
Beijing Sept. 27th-29th, see Jim
Grisanzio and Qingye Jiang.
Contributions to Consolidation Code
There were two code contributions put back into OpenSolaris via
the
request-sponsor program in September, bringing the total to 122.
Thanks to Rainer Orth and Chris Kimber for ON bug fixes. Also
thanks to Sun ON engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback:
Pete Dennis and Minskey Guo.
You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the
bugs fixed in the code
contributor report.
The
Seattle OpenSolaris User Group met for the first time on
Sept. 6th at the OpenSolaris World Tour. Topic of discussion was
meeting logistics moving forward.
The
Moscow OpenSolaris User Group met on Sept. 7th to discuss ZFS, and
on Sept. 28th Alexander Kolbasov presented about NUMA support in
Solaris.
The
Atlanta User Group held a meeting on Sept. 12th. The topic
for this meeting was DTrace Toolkit. Ryan Matteson, of Earthlink,
presented.
The
Sweden OpenSolaris User Group
held a meeting on Sept. 13th. Kjell Hogstrom presented Networks
Improvements in Solaris 10 and Nevada and gave an introduction on
OpenSolaris. Lars Tunkrans presented OpenSolaris Installation and
Compilation.
The
Madurai User Group met for the first time on September 20th.
A brainstorm session was held on "How to take OpenSolaris ahead in the
future."
The
Sydney User Group
met on September 21st. The focus of this meeting was informal
conversation about what people are currently working on of interest.
The
Bangalore User Group
met on September 23rd, which featured BeleniX booting off a USB stick
and a discussion on Branded Zones/Solaris Containers for Linux
Applications.
The Front
Range OpenSolaris User Group (FROSUG)
in Colorado held a meeting on September 26th. Lisa Week presented
information about pNFS, a new protocol extension to NSFv4 allows
separation of an NFS file system's data and metadata paths.
The
Silicon Valley User Group met on September 28th. Two talks
were presented: Sun Studio Tools and Trusted Solaris.
The Companion CD project made a test Subversion (SVN) repository
available on September 7th for Beta testing.
The ON test Mercurial repository, targeted for availability in
early September, was delayed again.
Also Noteworthy
DTrace Wins Top Award from the Wall Street
Journal: "The DTrace trouble-shooting software from Sun was chosen
as the Gold winner in The
Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards Contest,
the second time in three years that a Sun entry has won the top award."
Editor: Linda Bernal Contributors: Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio How to Contribute: The OpenSolaris Newsletter is a
community effort, and all community members are welcome to participate.
Simply send news items to program-team
mail list or the opensolaris-discuss
mail list.
The editor will keep track of contributions and list the names of
participants in each issue. Also, the editorial team is looking for
feedback on the content and format of the newsletter, so please feel
free to suggest changes.