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OpenSolaris Talks and Presentations

The table below contains presentations that people have given at user group meetings and conferences around the world. You can sort by clicking on the column headers. We hope the presentations are useful if you're planning meetings and looking for issues to discuss. You will also find more material (presentations, audio, video, etc) within the individual user group projects

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Date Speaker/Topic Where Archive Topic
2nd April 2008 Adriaan de Groot presents KDE4 op OpenSolaris NLOSUG slides KDE
28 March 2008 Jeff Cheeney and Son present about the Home NAS Box FROSUG slides + video CIFS, ZFS
10th January 2007 Darren Reed presents Advances in Solaris Networking CZOSUG slides + video (more formats) Networking
10th January 2007 Jan Kopřiva presents OpenGrok CZOSUG slides Developer
20th February 2007 Tim Foster presents OpenSolaris in review : September 2006 - February 2007 IEOSUG slides General
25th January 2007 Peter van Gemert presents What's new in Solaris 10 11/06 and beyond NLOSUG slides General
25th January 2007 Paul van den Bogaard presents A DTrace case study NLOSUG slides + article DTrace
21st February 2007 Zdeněk Kotala presents PostgreSQL CZOSUG slides General
21st February 2007 Martin Man presents GNU/Solaris (Nexenta) CZOSUG slides + apt-get (swf) + personality (swf) + rails (swf) Distributions
1st March 2007 Simon Phipps presents The Zen of Free (keynote) OpenSolaris Developer Conference photos General
26th February 2007 Rami Rosen presents OpenSolaris Overview HAIFUX slides General
1st March 2007 Detlef Drewanz presents Let SMF handle your service OpenSolaris Developer Conference slides + photos SMF
1st March 2007 Wolfgang Ley presents How to make your program privilege aware OpenSolaris Developer Conference slides + paper + photos Security
1st March 2007 Thomas Nau presents Looking into the black-box - how the kernel may impact your application OpenSolaris Developer Conference slides + photos Developer
1st March 2007 Slava Leanovich presents Name Services in OpenSolaris OpenSolaris Developer Conference slides + photos Networking
1st March 2007 Roland Mainz presents Overview of the OpenSolaris Korn Shell 93 Integration Project OpenSolaris Developer Conference slides + photos Developer
1st March 2007 Zdenek Kotala presents Elephant on Solaris OpenSolaris Developer Conference slides + photos Developer
1st March 2007 Thorleif Wiik presents Web 2.0 ready with OpenSolaris OpenSolaris Developer Conference slides + photos General
2nd March 2007 Roy T. Fielding presents Engineer for Serendipity (keynote) OpenSolaris Developer Conference slides + photos General
2nd March 2007 Jörg Schilling presents SchilliX creating an OpenSolaris distro OpenSolaris Developer Conference slides + photos Distributions
2nd March 2007 Martin Man presents Debian/GNU + OpenSolaris = Nexenta OpenSolaris Developer Conference photos Distributions
2nd March 2007 Martin Bochnig presents Future Development of the "marTux OpenSolaris" Distro OpenSolaris Developer Conference slides + photos Distributions
2nd March 2007 Moinak Ghosh presents LiveMedia Technologies for OpenSolaris OpenSolaris Developer Conference slides + photos Distributions
2nd March 2007 Damien Carbery presents pkgbuild - Building Solaris packages using RPM-like recipes OpenSolaris Developer Conference slides + photos General
2nd March 2007 Alan Perry presents Porting MythTV to OpenSolaris and the Mac Mini OpenSolaris Developer Conference slides + photos Developer
2nd March 2007 Jim Grisanzio presents The OpenSolaris Story: Opening in a Storm (closing note) OpenSolaris Developer Conference slides + photos General
6th March 2007 Moinak Ghosh presents Livemedia technologies for OpenSolaris CZOSUG slides + video (more formats) Distributions
6th March 2007 Vineeth Pillai presents BrandZ CZOSUG slides BrandZ
18th April 2007 Petr Hruška presents Input Method (XKBD,IIIM/XIM) CZOSUG slides I18n
18th April 2007 Lukáš Rovenský presents OpenSolaris Distributions LinuxExpo 2007 CZ slides (czech) Distributions
22nd March 2007 John Beck presents Network Automagic SVOSUG slides Networking
27th March 2007 Tim Foster presents OpenSolaris by numbers IEOSUG slides + notes + blog post General
27th March 2007 Tim Foster presents OpenSolaris - March in review IEOSUG slides General
27th March 2007 Fintan Ryan presents Building & Deploying OpenSolaris IEOSUG slides + blog post Developer
15th May 2007 Ľuboš Koščo presents N1 CZOSUG slides + N1 SM (swf) + N1 SPS (swf) General
15th May 2007 Jaromír Sedláček presents Packaging CZOSUG slides + pkg1 + pkg2 + video Packaging
26th June 2007 Tim Foster presents BFU^HI – A Blindingly Fast Introduction to OpenSolaris IEOSUG slides + mp3 audio Introduction
26th June 2007 Fintan Ryan presents Fintanr's top 5 DTrace one liners IEOSUG slides + mp3 audio DTrace
26th June 2007 Sean McGrath presents OpenSolaris Resource Controls IEOSUG slides + mp3 audio General
26th June 2007 Conor Nolan presents OpenSolaris self-test portal IEOSUG slides + mp3 audio Testing
26th June 2007 Tim Foster presents 2007 – some fast highlights IEOSUG slides + mp3 audio Introduction
26th June 2007 Tim Foster presents Why you should (and shouldn't!) run OpenSolaris on your laptop IEOSUG slides + mp3 audio General
12th July 2007 Glynn Foster presents Project Indiana IEOSUG slides + blog + audio General
12th July 2007 Tim Foster presents June/July '07 in Review IEOSUG slides + blog + audio General
26th July 2007 Eric Saxe presents OpenSolaris Scheduling and CPU Management SVOSUG slides Developer
30th August 2007 Tim Foster presents OpenSolaris news for July/August 2007 IEOSUG mp3 audio + show notes + podcast feed General
12th September 2007 Boyd Adamson presents Live Upgrade: Using and Abusing MSOSUG slides Install
5th October 2007 Takanobu Masuzuki presents OpenSolaris Project Review Tokyo slides (Japanese) General
6th December 2007 Henk Langeveld presents OpenSolaris and the Korn Shell NLOSUG slides General
6 December 2007 Frank van der Linden presents x64 Virtualization with the Xen Hypervisor NLOSUG slides General
10th January 2006 Scott Dickson presents Installing & Building OpenSolaris ATLOSUG slides Developer
10th January 2006 Frank Hofmann presents OS Virtualization (VMWare, Xen / Hypervisors, BrandZ) CZOSUG slides + photos + photos General
19th January 2006 Mark Maybee presents ZFS The Last Word In Filesystems FROSUG slides + photos + blog post ZFS
25th January 2006 James McPherson presents Getting to know the SAN stack SOSUG slides Storage
25th January 2006 Alan Hargreaves presents Non-Debug OpenSolaris SOSUG slides + (non-live) mp3 of presentation + blog post Developer
26th January 2006 Max Bruning presents An Overview of Device Drivers on Solaris SVOSUG photos + slides + additional content Device Drivers
19th February 2006 Keith Wesolowski presents OpenSolaris for Contributors TechnoZion '06 slides Developer
21st February 2006 Martin Červený presents OpenSolaris 2005 CZOSUG slides (czech) + photos General
25th Febuary 2006 Jon Haslam presents A DTrace Tutorial FOSDEM '06 video DTrace
26th February 2006 Jon Haslam presents DTrace:Seeing is Believing FOSDEM '06 slides + video DTrace
3rd March 2006 Eric Lowe presents Observing the OpenSolaris Kernel SIGCSE '06 slides + blog post Developer
3rd March 2006 Russ Blaine presents Brand Z/Containers for Linux Applications SIGCSE '06 slides BrandZ
12th March 2006 Detlef Drewanz presents BrandZ - Solaris Containers for Linux CeBIT '06 slides (german) BrandZ
12th March 2006 Ulrich Gräf presents ZFS - The Last Word in Filesystems CeBIT '06 slides (german) ZFS
12th March 2006 Thomas Nau presents ZFS - Looking at 18+ months ZFS experience CeBIT '06 slides ZFS
18th March 2006 Anish Gupta presents OpenSolaris Driver Development Primer NITWOSUG slides Device Drivers
11th March 2006 Martin Červený presents OpenSolaris Administration Fundamentals CZOSUG slides (czech) + photos General
11th March 2006 Martin Červený presents OpenSolaris Kernel Modules/Device Drivers Development CZOSUG slides (czech) + photos Device Drivers
11th March 2006 Víťa Bátrla, Petr Šumbera, Milan Juřík present CDMA USB modem CZOSUG slides + photos Device Drivers
11th March 2006 Vladimír Kotal, Jan Pechanec present Installfest - Simple Solaris Instalation CZOSUG slides + photos Install
23rd March 2006 Dan Price presents What is Solaris Nevada - Nevada at 37 SVOSUG slides + blog post General
9th April 2006 Frank DiMambro presents High Performance DLPI Drivers NITWOSUG slides Device Drivers
10th April 2006 Lukáš Rovenský presents CZOSUG LinuxExpo 2006 CZ slides (czech) General
10th April 2006 Ladislav Pecen presents OpenSolaris LinuxExpo 2006 CZ slides (czech) General
11th April 2006 Ľuboš Koščo, Martin Man present Sun Grid Engine CZOSUG slides + video (czech) (more formats) + photos Grid
11th April 2006 Frank Hofmann presents How to write a filesystem driver for Solaris CZOSUG slides + video (more formats) + photos Device Drivers
15th April 2006 Afsin Taskiran presents Introduction to OpenSolaris TOSUG slides + photos General
20th April 2006 Stuart Maybee presents Solaris and Xen FROSUG slides Xen
29th April 2006 Stephen Potter presents An Introduction to OpenSolaris COLUG slides General
5th May 2006 Tomáš Heran presents Service Management Facility (smf(5)) CZOSUG slides SMF
5th May 2006 Vladimír Kotal, Milan Juřík present Binary packages for OpenSolaris (Companion Software/Solaris Freeware, Sun Freeware, Blastwave) CZOSUG slides Packaging
9th May 2006 Scott Dickson presents BrandZ - Running Linux Applications in a Zone ATLOSUG slides Zones
23th May 2006 Dave Hagerty Presents Installing OpenSolaris and Sun Studio Development Tools FROSUG slides Install
13th June 2006 Scott Dickson presents ZFS & Zones Integration ATLOSUG slides + photos + blog post Zones
13th June 2006 Marcel Telka presents Slovak GNOME Localization CZOSUG slides I18n
13th June 2006 Aleš Černošek, Jan Trejbal present Internationalization and Localization in OpenSolaris CZOSUG slides I18n
14th June 2006 Tim Foster presents OpenSolaris, the year in review IEOSUG slides General
27th June 2006 Sanjay Nadkarni presents The Future of Install on OpenSolaris FROSUG slides Install
11th July 2006 Darryl Gove presents Cool Tools for SPARC Systems CZOSUG slides Developer
25th July 2006 Tim Foster presents July in review IEOSUG writeup General
25th July 2006 Sean McGrath presents DTrace Introduction IEOSUG slides DTrace
25th August 2006 Sunay Tripathi presents CrossBow: Network Virtualization and Resource Control SVOSUG slides Networking
29th August 2006 Tim Foster presents August in review IEOSUG slides General
1st September 2006 Lisa Week presents Parallel NFS (pNFS) FROSUG slides Networking
7th September 2006 Victor Latushkin presents ZFS, The Last Word In Filesystems MOSUG slides (Russian) ZFS
7th September 2006 Stephen Hahn presents Building and Deploying OpenSolaris Seattle Sun Tech Day slides Developer
7th September 2006 Nicholas Droux presents OpenSolaris Virtulization Technologies Seattle Sun Tech Day slides General
7th September 2006 Glenn Faden, Darren Moffat & Scott Rotondo present New Security Features in OpenSolaris Seattle Sun Tech Day slides Security
7th September 2006 Richard McDougall & Jim Mauro present Solaris 10/OpenSolaris Performance, Observability and Debugging (POD) Seattle Sun Tech Day slides Developer
21st October 2006 Frank Hofmann presents Solaris Virtualization and the Xen Hypervisor CZOSUG slides + photos Xen
21st October 2006 Jiří Červenka presents Xen-aware OSes – brief status overview CZOSUG slides + video (czech) (more formats) + photos Xen
21st October 2006 Michal Švamberg presents Xen at the University of West Bohemia CZOSUG slides (czech) + video (czech) (more formats) + photos Xen
21st October 2006 Milan Juřík presents Life with dom0/domU CZOSUG video (czech) (more formats) + photos Xen
21st October 2006 Johannes Schindelin presents QEMU - a Xen alternative CZOSUG slides + video (more formats) + photos Xen
21st October 2006 Luboš Koščo, Milan Juřík present Xen Hibernate Migration CZOSUG slides + photos Xen
24th October 2006 Bill Knoche presents Porting Linux Applications to Solaris FROSUG slides Developer
26th October 2006 Darren Moffat presents OpenSolaris Development and ZFS crypro NLOSUG slides ZFS
26th October 2006 Remco Fugers presents OpenSolaris StarterKit NLOSUG slides General
14th November 2006 Martin Červený presents OpenSolaris 2006 CZOSUG slides (czech) General
13th December 2006 Jiří Červenka presents hg(1) or Mercurial CZOSUG slides + images Developer
26th April 2005 Liane Praza presents SMF
(Also, Jan Setje-Eilers presents NewBoot)
SVOSUG video + slides SMF
1st June 2005 Eric Schrock & Dave Powell present Solaris 10/OpenSolaris technical overview talk at FISL slides General
31st May 2005 Darren Moffat presents Security
(Also, Project Looking Glass)
SVOSUG video Security
20th June 2005 Ulf Andreasson presents Welcome & Intro, LOSUG slides + photos General
20th June 2005 Simon Phipps presents OpenSolaris from the Inside LOSUG slides + photos General
20th June 2005 Peter C. Tribble presents Why OpenSolaris LOSUG slides + photos General
28th June 2005 Keith Wesolowski & Mike Kupfer present Building OpenSolaris SVOSUG video Developer
26th July 2005 Mike Shapiro presents FMA SVOSUG video + slides + photos FMA
12th August 2005 Jerry Jelinek presents An introduction to OpenSolaris FROSUG slides General
16th August 2005 Alan Hargreaves presents Chewing the bite-size bugs SOSUG slides + recording of a scripted summary (mp3) Developer
18th August 2005 Adam Leventhal's DTrace Boot Camp (many venues) slides DTrace
25th August 2005 Seng-Quee & Sam Tan present CDDL & OpenSolaris Introduction SGOSUG CDDL slides + slides General
30th August 2005 David Comay presents Zones SVOSUG video + slides Zones
14th September 2005 Kjell Högström & Lars Tunkrans present OpenSolaris Introduction SWOSUG intro slides General
14th September 2005 Lars Tunkrans presents OpenSolaris Installation & Compilation SWOSUG install/compile slides (Swedish) Developer
22nd September 2005 Glynn Foster presents JDS & OpenSolaris : an open desktop on an open platform Beijing University slides Desktop
27th September 2005 Darren Moffat presents OpenSolaris Security For Geeks IEOSUG slides + mp3 (part 1) (part 2) Security
29th September 2005 Dario Leon presents Solaris Zones VOSUG zones slides + photos Zones
29th September 2005 Pedro Gómez presents Descripción del proyecto OpenSolaris VOSUG intro slides (Spanish) + photos General
25th August 2005 Seng-Quee presents Compiling & installing OpenSolaris SGOSUG slides Developer
30th September 2005 Alvaro López Ortega presents OpenSolaris 4to Festival GNU/Linux y Software Libre blurb + slides (Spanish) + photos General
7th October 2005 Sriram Popuri & Pavan T C present an Introduction to OpenSolaris BOSUG slides General
15th October 2005 Robert Milkowski presents DTrace CZOSUG at OpenWeekend slides + video (more formats) + photos + photos DTrace
15th October 2005 Lukáš Rovenský, Jirí Šašek, Petr Šumbera and other Prague engineers present A Panel discussion about OpenSolaris CZOSUG at OpenWeekend slides + photos + photos General
15th October 2005 Sin-Yaw Wang presents OpenSolaris BJOSUG slides + Picture 1 + Picture 2 + Picture 3 General
15th October 2005 Erik Nordmark presents Solaris Networking BJOSUG slides + Picture 1 + Picture 2 + Picture 3 Networking
16th October 2005 Martin Červený presents OpenSolaris Security CZOSUG at OpenWeekend slides (czech) + video (czech) (more formats) + photos + photos Security
16th October 2005 Martin Červený presents Introduction to OpenSolaris kernel CZOSUG at OpenWeekend slides (czech) + photos + photos Developer
17th October 2005 James McPherson presents ZFS SOSUG slides + ZFS video ZFS
17th October 2005 Bryan Cantrill presents DTrace Tricks and Tips SOSUG video DTrace
18th October 2005 Teresa Giacomini presents OpenSolaris : Opportunities for Education GLUG slides Education
31st October 2005 Teresa Giacomini presents OpenSolaris : Opportunities for Education ATX-OSUG slides Education
25th October 2005 Simon Phipps presents The Zen Of Free : The Truth About Open Source FROSUG slides + photos General
29th October 2005 Vincent Liu presents Solaris DTrace BJOSUG slides + photos DTrace
29th October 2005 Joey Guo presents OpenSolaris building & installation BJOSUG slides (Chinese) + photos Developer
8th November 2005 Scott Dickson presents An Introduction To OpenSolaris ATLOSUG slides + photo1 + photo2 + photo3 General
8th November 2005 Muppalla Sridhar presents Opportunities For Education NITWOSUG slides Education
10th November 2005 Petr Šumbera presents OpenSolaris Distributions CZOSUG slides + photos + photos Distributions
10th November 2005 Frank Hofmann presents DTrace backend implementation on Solaris/x86-x64 CZOSUG slides + photos + photos DTrace
10th November 2005 Jim Grisanzio & Akira Osohone present The OpenSolaris Story JavaONE Tokyo BOF slides + session slides (Japanese) + BOF photos + session photos General
17th November 2005 Sam Falkner presents An Introduction To DTrace FROSUG slides DTrace
22nd November 2005 Jeff Bonwick presents ZFS: The Last Word In File Systems SVOSUG video ZFS
24th November 2005 Iwan Rahabok & Nathan Phua present Kernel Overview SGOSUG part 1 slides + part 2 slides Developer
29th November 2005 Stephen Lau presents OpenSolaris UCSD opensolaris slides + trip report General
29th November 2005 Eric Saxe presents DTrace Overview UCSD slides + dtrace demo scripts + trip report DTrace
1st December 2005 Cyril Plisko presents OpenSolaris Community Resources IOSUG slides + photos General
3rd December 2005 Max Bruning presents A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernels and Device Drivers BJOSUG introduction slides (Chinese) + device driver slides + photos Device Drivers
3rd December 2005 Mark Nelson presents Plugging into OpenSolaris BJOSUG plugging into slides + photos General
5th December 2005 Mike Hayden presents Open Source, Open Standards & OpenSolaris OpenSolaris OS Curricula workshop slides + photos General
7th December 2005 Bill Moore presents ZFS: The Last Word In File Systems LISA '05 slides + photos ZFS
10th December 2005 Moinak Ghosh presents an Introduction to BeleniX BOSUG photos General
10th December 2005 Sriram Popuri presents Zones - A Virtualized OS Environment BOSUG slides + photos Zones
19th December 2005 Jon Haslam and Adam Leventhal present DTrace Internals LOSUG photos + more photos DTrace
19th December 2005 Tim Graves presents ZFS overview and demo LOSUG slides + photos + more photos ZFS
19th December 2005 Random people ( David Edmondson, Phil Harman, Darren Moffat) present Lightning Talks! LOSUG xen slides + libmicro slides + crypto slides + photos + more photos General
23rd December 2005 Ben Rockwood presents An Introduction to OpenSolaris BayLISA video General