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OpenSolaris Project: Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group

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The Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group (ATLOSUG) has been established to connect members of the community interested in OpenSolaris and Solaris, and to grow the OpenSolaris community in the Atlanta area. All are welcome – developers, open-source contributors, system administrator, architects, and any other interested parties.

Meetings

ATLOSUG holds its meetings on the 2nd Tuesday of each month. Meetings are held at the Sun Microsystems office, 3655 North Point Parkway, Suite 600, Alpharetta, GA. Meetings run from 7:00 to 9:00PM, with networking and light refreshments beginning at 6:30PM.

Next Meeting

The Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group will have its next meeting on April 8, 2008 at the Sun Office in Alpharetta, Georgia. Meeting details and directions can be found here.

  • What: ATLOSUG August Meeting
  • When: Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 7-9PM
  • Where: Sun Office, Alpharetta, GA
  • Contact: Scott Dickson (scott dot dickson at sun dot com)
  • Topic: OpenSolaris Binary Distribution and Image Packaging System
  • Speaker: Scott Dickson, Sun Microsystem
  • Abstract: Coming soon

Upcoming Meeting Topics

DateTopicSpeaker
08 Apr 2008OpenSolaris Binary DistributionScott Dickson, Sun
13 May 2008Project Clearview and Networking EnhancementsRyan Matteson, Ning

Please send your suggestions for topics to scott dot dickson at sun dot com.

Contacts

Scott DicksonSun MicrosystemsScott dot Dickson at Sun dot Com770-360-6442

Email Discussion List

An email alias for the Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group is hosted at opensolaris.org. The list is called ug dash atlosug at opensolaris dot org. To subscribe, visit the mail list administration site at http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-atlosug. Announcements and news will be sent to this list.

Directions to Sun Alpharetta

Sun is located at 3655 North Point Parkway, Suite 600, Alpharetta, Georgia. Take exit 10 on GA 400, Old Milton Parkway, and go east (right if you were traveling north). Turn left at the 3rd traffic light, North Point Parkway. Turn left into the 2nd driveway, the Preston Ridge I parking lot. Sun is located on the 6th floor, Suite 600. For after-hours meetings, someone will be in the downstairs lobby to open the front door and to give directions to the Sun office.

Blogs

matty - OpenSolaris now supports dynamic LUN expansion

May 9, 6:51 AM

With the following putback: PSARC 2006/373 Dynamic Lun Expansion 6241086 Format should allow label adjustment when disk/lun size changes 6430818 Solaris needs mechanism of dynamically increasing lun ...

mike - The wonderful world of Leadville

Apr 15, 7:20 AM

In a SAN environment when dealing with external storage concepts such as EMC BCV’s, you’ll often have a request to create volumes on two different machines that are identical so replication on the ...

mike - ZFS boot support for SPARC / x86

Apr 13, 5:54 AM

The flag day for ZFS boot support was just announced which will allow for root file systems (/, /var, /usr) to be bootable from both SPARC and x86 platforms.  It looks like this functionality is ...

mike - Respect my ~/.Xauthority !#@$!

Apr 4, 10:09 PM

South Park is a hilarious show, and I think that Cartman is the best character.  One of Cartman’s classic lines is “YOU WILL RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!#!” So Cartman wasn’t a unix geek and wasn’t talking ...

matty - Beer to be integrated into Nevada!!

Apr 1, 7:29 AM

I just came across the beer fastrack, which proposes to integrate beer(1) into opensolaris (I am disappointed that wine(1) is not in scope): Overview ======== This case describes the proper usage ...