April 2008
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April 2008 OpenSolaris Community Newsletter
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Quotes of the Month
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News
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User Group Meetings
- The [http://opensolaris.org/os/project/rtp-osug/ RTP-OSUG (Research Triangle Park OpenSolaris User Group) kicked off their first meeting on April 1st. Jason Schroeder presented Zones/Containers.
- The [http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nlosug/ NLOSUG (Netherlands OpenSolaris User Group)met on April 2nd. [http://blogs.sun.com/bartm/ Bart Muijzer gave a NLOSUG update. [mailto:groot at kde dot org Adriaan de Groot presented KDE4 op Solaris.
- The [http://opensolaris.org/os/project/bosug/ BOSUG (Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group) met on April 4th. Crossbow -Network Virtualization and Resource controls was presented.
- The [http://opensolaris.org/os/project/adl-auosug/ ADL-AUSOG (Adelaide OpenSolaris User Group) met on April 15th. Topics of discussion included: What's new in Solaris 10 and a quick round up of servers.
- The [http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/msosug/ MSOSUG (Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group) met on April 16th. Nathan and Andre presented LDOMS in anger. Blaise Groud presented Resource control and Zones.
- The [http://opensolaris.org/os/project/sdosug/ SDOSOG (San Diego OpenSolaris User Group) met on April 16th. Charles Alexander gave a presentation on VirtualBox and server virtualization.
- The [http://opensolaris.org/os/project/bjosug/ BJOSUG (Beijing OpenSolaris User Group) met on April 24th. Aubrey Li presented PowerTOP, and Power Management in OpenSolaris.
- The [http://opensolaris.org/os/project/svosug/ SVOSUG (Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group) met on April 24th. Project Nitro was presented.
- The FROSUG(Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) met on Thursday, April 24th 2008. Deirdre Straughan presented Social Networking and Clay Baenziger presented Debugging OpenSolaris (tools etc).
- The [http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ie-osug/ IE-OSUG (Irish OpenSolaris User Group) got together in April. [http://blogs.sun.com/rv Rafael Vanoni a developer in the Solaris Kernel Group, gave a talk about the changes that were made to OpenSolaris as part of the NUMA project.
- The [http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug NYCOSUG (New York Open Solaris User Group) met on April 29th. The agenda included:
OpenSolaris: What's New, Adopting Application Services to SMF, and OpenSolaris-based storage/filesystems technologies.
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Conferences
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Project Updates
6 Projects were opened in April
- Device Manager https://opensolaris.org/os/project/devicemgr/
- MilaX minimal Live Distribution https://opensolaris.org/os/project/milax/
- Networking Documentation http://opensolaris.org/os/project/networking-doc
- Open HA Cluster Utilities http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ha-utilities/
- Scripting Languages for MDB https://opensolaris.org/os/project/mdbscript/
- OHACGE-SBP http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ohacge-sbp
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Technical Status
Consolidations
- The Solaris Quality Engineering nicdrv test team has released the nicdrv test suite on 04/24/08. The test source tarballs and packages can be downloaded at: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/test/downloads/current
Contributions to Consolidation Code
- There was 4 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in April, bringing the total to 240. Thanks to Juergen Keil, Rich Lowe, and Jason King for the bug fixes. And thanks to the Sun engineers: Mark Johnson, Dave Marker, and James McPherson for sponsoring the code through to putback.
- You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.
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April 2008 Newsletter Contributors
Linda Bernal
