June 2008
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June 2008 OpenSolaris Community Newsletter
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Quotes of the Month
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News
- Updated OpenSolaris.org metrics http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/metrics/
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User Group Meetings
- The Front Range OpenSolaris User Group gathered on Thursday June 26th. Brian Timoney presented "How Open Source is Transforming Geospatial Visualization", Scott Tracy presented "Tape Support", and Evan Layton presented "Snap Upgrade".
- The Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group met on June 26th. The purpose of this meeting was to brainstorm ideas for future meetings moving forward.
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Conferences
- OSDevCon2008, Prague, June 25-27: Proceedings, Presentations, and Videos are online. Photos here.
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Project Updates
There was 5 new projects opened in the month of June.
- SystemZ http://opensolaris.org/os/project/systemz/
- Mega-sas https://opensolaris.org/os/project/mega_sas/
- Common Array Manager https://opensolaris.org/os/project/cam/
- OpenSolaris Explorer http://opensolaris.org/os/project/explorer/
- Celeste http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/celeste/
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Technical Status
Contributions to Consolidation code
- There was 3 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in June, bringing the total to 250. Thanks to Juergen Keil and Cyril Plisko for the bug fixes. And thanks to the Sun engineers: Garrett D'Amore, Randy Fishel, and Dan McDonald 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.
Distributions
Consolidations
- The nv_92 man pages were made available on June 26th. http://dlc.sun.com/osol/man/downloads/current/
- The Docs consolidation released source on June 8th for:
- Writing Device Drivers
- OpenSolaris Development Guide
- ON Test published source on June 11th for the Storage Driver Test Suite (SDTS)
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June 2008 Newsletter Conrtibutors
Linda Bernal, Jim Grisanzio
