March 2008

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March 2008 OpenSolaris Community Newsletter

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Quotes of the Month

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News

Reminder: OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards

Go to awards.opensolaris.org to register, declare an entry, and submit your entry. See the updated information on the OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards Program site. Before you can register for the contest, you must already be registered as an OpenSolaris.org member. Before you can submit an entry, you must already have an SCA number. All types of entries are welcome. Deadline is June 13, 2008. See the web site for more information.

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User Group Meetings

  • The Bhimavaram OpenSolaris User Group (BVRM-OSU) met on March 12th. Raju Alluri presented DTrace and Demonstration of OpenSolaris Developer Preview.
  • The London OpenSolaris User Group (LOSUG) met on March 19th. Darren Moffat presented ZFS & lofi Crypto On Disk Encryption OpenSolaris.
  • The Front Range OpenSolaris User Group (FROSUG)held a meeting on March 20th. Topics of discussion included; Home Spun NAS Box Based on OpenSolaris, Microroot, and OpenSolaris.
  • The New York OpenSolaris User's Group (NYCOSUG) met on March 10th. The featured topics were OpenSolaris x86-based virtualization technologies & xVM.
  • The Silicon Valley OpenSolaris (SVOSUG) met on March 27th. John Weeks presented FMAC. You can find more information on FMAC here.
  • The Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group (BOSUG) held a meeting on March 29th. Ananth Shrinivas gave a talk on Image Packaging System (IPS).
  • Porto Alegre OSUG Meeting, March 20th. Pictures and minutes can be found in our website
  • Research Triangle Park, NC OSUG Meeting set for April 1st. This will be our kickoff meeting and Jason Schroeder from Sun will present "Zone Blitz". See our website for presentation details and directions to our meeting place. If you're in the RTP area come join us on April 1st.
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Conferences

  • OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days Sydney, Australia took place on March 6th. Logistics and presentations can be found here.
  • OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days Johannesburg, South Africa was held on March 11th. Logistics and presentations can be found here.
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Project Updates

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Technical Status

Consolidations

  • The Docs consolidation released updated man pages for nv_86 build. They are available from the OpenSolaris download center. This update adds 9 new files. http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/manpages
  • The ON Test consolidation released two test suites on March 24th.
    • Secure by Default (SBD)
    • Key Management Framework (KMF).
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March 2008 Newsletter Contributors

Linda Bernal,


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