May 2008
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May 2008 OpenSolaris Community Newsletter
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Quotes of the Month
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News
- The first release of the OpenSolaris (TM) operating system, OpenSolaris 2008.05 was available on May 5th. [Download]
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User Group Meetings
- The Research Triangle Park OpenSolaris User Group got together on May 6th. Gary Little discussed Core Analysis.
- The St. Louis OpenSolaris User Group met on May 20th. Jeff Logullo presented ZFS: What's new; what's changed.
- The London OpenSolarus User Group met on May 21st. Phil Kirk & IDE, Chris Beal presented Project Crossbow.
- The Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group met on May 21st. The meeting started off with a roundtable of current events. Next Andre presented Solaris Containers – Updated for S9. Nathan presented Maramba.
- The San Antonio OpenSolaris User Groups met on May 21st. Matthew Montgomery presented MySQL Roadmap, Solaris 10 5/08 and Cool Threads Update/P>
- The Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group got together on May 22nd. Darryl Gove, author of the recent Prentice Hall publication, "Solaris Application Programming", joined the meeting.
- The Adelaide OpenSolaris User Group met on Tuesday May 27th. Alex Sims presented "Solaris 10, the good, the bad and the missing".
- The Berlin OpenSolaris User Group met on May 28th. Thorsten Früauf presented OpenHA Cluster.
- The Front Range OpenSolaris User Group met on Thursday May 29th. Dan Maslowski & Jeff Cheeney presented Comstar and a demo. Jim Walker presented Porting open source to OpenSolaris.
- The New York OpenSolaris User's Group (NYCOSUG) gathered on May 29th. Featured topic was on the subject of DTrace development and associated experiences, presented by our very own community member Chad Mynhier.
- The Porto Alegre OpenSolaris User Group got together on May 29th. Marcelo Leal presented on Solaris Zones and Containers.
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Conferences
- OpenSolaris Developer Summit May '08
- OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Mexico City was held on May 23rd. You can download presentations here
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Project Updates
2 Projects were opened in April:
- DAVfs https://opensolaris.org/os/project/davfs2/
- Easy Tools http://opensolaris.org/os/project/phpEasyTools/
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Technical Status
Consolidations
- The May 2008 update of the Docs Consolidation is now available for download:[here]
- Solaris Quality Engineering group released the FNFS and SMF test suites. More information on FNFS test suite can be found at:
Contributions to Consolidation Code
- There was 6 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in May, bringing the total to 246. Thanks to Denis Cheng, Mike Gerdts, Juergen Keil, Roland Mainz, and Ashok Raj for the bug fixes. And thanks to the Sun engineers: Sudheer Abdul-Salam, Pete Dennis, Sam Falkner, Mark Johnson, Eric Kustarz, and Dan Mick 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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May 2008 Newsletter Contributors
Linda Bernal
