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OpenSolaris Project: New England OpenSolaris User GroupView the leaders for this projectProject Observers Endorsing communitiesAdvocacy Community GroupCharter The New England OpenSolaris User Group has been established to connect members of the community interested in OpenSolaris and Solaris, and to grow the OpenSolaris community in the Greater Boston area. All are welcome - developers, open-source contributors, system administrators, architects, and any other interested parties.Meetings NEOSUG holds its meetings monthly at the Sun Microsystems Burlington Headquarters, 1 Network Drive, Burlington MA. Meetings run from 6:00 to 7:30PM, with registration beginning at 5:30PM.Fourth NEOSUG Meeting 11/1-- Fourth NEOSUG Meeting : Indiana and Solaris 8 Migration Assistant The Fourth NEOSUG meeting, will be on Nov 1 starting at 6:30 at the Sun campus in Burlington, MA. This time we have two talks on great topics. Project Indiana and the Solaris 8 Migration Assistant. We'll have an optional "install fest" after the talk where NEOSUG attendees can try out the Indiana distro of Solaris. Dave will have live CDs to allow exploration without installation. We are also planning on having VMware images, so VMware-happy laptops are welcome as well.The meeting should run until 9:30 or so. There will be pizza and soda, plus a bunch of giveaways. Hope to see you there! See the full announcement and agenda. Here are some useful links:
Third NEOSUG Meeting 9/11--all about LDOMs This meeting is scheduled to coincide with the Sun Tech Days event at the Boston Sheraton. The NEOSUG meeting will take place after the tech day. For a full day of Sun fun register for the tech days and then stay into the evening for NEOSUG. Stay tuned for more details.Second NEOSUG Meeting 3/12--all about Open Solaris Virtualization Technologies Nils Nieuwejaar presented on Virtualization technologies in OpenSolaris, and we had a tour of Project BlackBox.See below for a light introduction to virtualization technologies in OpenSolaris... OpenSolaris Virtualization Technologies Virtualization technologies enable host and service consolidation. They provide a flexible environment which increases CPU utilization, improves availability, reduces server sprawl, and saves on the costs associated with administration, power consumption, floor space, etc.OpenSolaris embraces virtualization through various projects such as Xen, Zones, and BrandZ. The OpenSolaris on Xen project focuses on the port of Xen, which was developed by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, to OpenSolaris. Xen uses a paravirtualization approach, where the guest operating system being virtualized is made aware of the underlying hypervisor, which allows for higher performance and strong isolation between domains. Zones provide an operating system abstraction for partitioning systems, allowing multiple applications to run in isolation from each other on the same physical hardware, while sharing a single Solaris kernel. Zones can be complemented by resource management facilities to form Containers. Branded Zones extend the Zones model to support non-native Zones on a Solaris system. The Linux BrandZ Zone, for instance, allows existing Linux distributions to run unchanged within a Zone running on a Solaris Kernel, reducing the Linux barrier to exit. What: New England OpenSolaris User Group Meeting (NEOSUG) When: March 12, 2007 6:00-7:30 pm (registration 5:30) Where: Sun Microsystems Campus 1 Network Circle Burlington MA # # # First NEOSUG Meeting Report Just a quick note about the first NEOSUG meeting held on Jan 31st 2007.By all accounts it was a great success with more than 80 interested folks showing up. I asked a series of questions about what form NEOSUG should take and here are my notes on the topic. If you have input on any of these please feel free to get in touch with me at pbg at cptech.com. - Meetings will be after work hours - Burlington MA is good (other suggestions welcome) - Anywhere from 1.5 hours to 3 hours is good - Sun and Corporate Technologies will be the pizza / beverage sponsors for now - Laura Ramsey and I will coordinate the meetings for now, with help from other Sun folks - Sun / Solaris topics are interesting, as well as OpenSolaris topics - Meetings monthly or so - Each meeting should be part talk, part discussion / round table / help session Future topics of interest: - Installfest to get some Solaris release installed on each interested person’s computer - Operating system (Solaris and other) benchmarking and feature discussion - ZFS - DTrace intro, DTrace of Java, DTrace of Oracle - Multibooting Solaris 10+ - How to write a device driver - S10 upgrade methodology, liveupgrade details and demo - Demo of an OpenSolaris OS release - How to build the OpenSolaris kernel - Seeing the BlackBox when it’s in town - Information on new Sun hardware as its released - Talks on the details of each of the OpenSolaris projects --Peter My blog: http://pbgalvin.wordpress.com/ Inaugral Meeting - Wednesday, January 31 2007 The agenda for the evening will include an introduction to the OpenSolaris project, and a technical update on the most recent build of OpenSolaris Code.Agenda (which is improving daily) 5:30-6:00 Registration, Refreshments 6:00-6:45 Introduction to the OpenSolaris Project 7:00-7:30 Technical overview --What's New in OpenSolaris 7:30-8:00 What's next for NEOSUG/Q&A/ Ask the Experts Special Guests include: *Peter Galvin, Chief Technologist, Corporate Technologies, Inc. *Dave Miner, OpenSolaris Lead for Approachability and Installation communities and Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Announcements
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