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Newsletter Archive: 2007

OpenSolaris Newsletter: January 2007

Overview

The OpenSolaris Community started 2007 with a bang as the community broke new records for conversations even before engaging in a massive thread about future licensing options. Additionally, new components on the project were opened, and the community continued to meet within user groups and at conferences, and two new conferences have been set for February in Germany and India.

Quote of the Month

We want to make it easier for developers to not only work on OpenSolaris but to also develop applications on top of OpenSolaris. Getting more people to participate and making it easier for developers to start developing on Sun Solaris is the key thing we're focusing on. Stephen Harpster, Director of Open Source Engineering at Sun Microsystems, quoted in internet.com, 1/10/07.

Community News

News Summaries

Jive Discussion Forum Data

    • For January: Total Web Views: 1,041,476, Unique Visitors: 888,206, Total Threads: 1,736, Total Messages: 7,580.
    • From launch 20 months ago: Total Web Views: 10,147,246, Unique Visitors: 7,244,1930, Total Threads: 21,152, Total Messages: 20,675
  • Registrations to opensolaris.org doubled for the month of January bringing the total to 21,099.
  • More OpenSolaris Community metrics in the marketing community.

Projects & Communities

Conferences:

  • OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days was held on January 16th, in Atlanta. You can download all presentations here.
  • Abstracts for the German Unix User Group's OpenSolaris Developer Conference at the end of February have been posted.
  • Abstracts have been posted for an OpenSolaris Day conference in India in February.

Contributions to Consolidation Code

  • There were 4 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris via the request-sponsor program in December, bringing the total to 141.
  • Thanks to Juergen Keil and Garrett D'Amore for bug fixes. Also thanks to Sun ON engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: Jan Setje-Eilers, Carol Fields and Minskey Guo.
  • There were 3 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in January, bringing the total to 144.
  • Thanks to Stephen Potter, Rich Lowe and Bruce Shaw for the ON bug fixes. A thanks to the ON Sun engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: Stephen Lau, Sarah Jelinek and Dan Groves.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report

User Groups

  • The Czech OpenSolaris User Group met on Dec. 13th. Zdenek Burda spoke about Containers, their administration, and his experiences with this technology, and Jiri Cervenka spoke about Mercurial, how it works, and how to work with it and why.
  • The FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) met on Dec. 14th. This was a social meeting held at the Splitz bowling center in Westminster. FROSUG met again on Jan. 25th. Chris McDonald presented Solaris Training, Jerry Jelinek presented presented OpenSolaris Zones and Jon Bowman gave an OpenSolaris update.
  • The SVOSUG (Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group) got together on Dec. 21st and held a Holiday Installfest. SVOSUG met again on Jan. 25th, Ben Rockwood talked about "Why Joyent doesn't fsck".
  • The NLOSUG (Netherlands OpenSolaris User Group)met on Jan 25th. Bart Muijzer gave an update on the NLOSUG, Peter van Gemert presented what's new in Solaris 10 11/06 and beyond, and Paul van den Bogaard offered a DTrace case study.
  • The NEOSUG (New England Opensolaris User Group) met for the first time on Jan. 31st. Topics on the agenda included an introduction to the OpenSolaris project and a technical update on the most recent build.

Technical Status

New Components

  • The Man Page consolidation published source for an initial set of 356 man pages on Dec. 11th. Download.
  • The ON Test team published source for the NFSv4 Test Suite was released on Dec. 18th. Download. You can view in the source browser here
  • The DevPro Consolidation made source for SCCS and make available on Dec. 19th. Download
  • The Globalization Consolidation made source for OS locales and system libraries (non-translation source) available on Dec. 22nd. "From developers to students, from translators to writers, there's a way to contribute to OpenSolaris.org. Help us create excellent reference material to OpenSolaris by translating terms and the definitions in this glossary! - Young Joo Pintaske Download
  • The Man Page consolidation published source for a second set of 2790 man pages on Jan. 26th. Download.

SCM Work: General

  • Mercurial 0.9.3 became available at the end of December with rename support which is support needed by the OpenSolaris project.
  • The end of the site beta for Mercurial on opensolaris.org pushed out due to the Mercurial release happening later than expected and due to some operational problems encountered in the website support.
  • New dates for the end of the site beta and the move of the ON consolidation to Mercurial will be available in early February.

December/January's Newsletter Contributors

 Editor: Linda Bernal
 Contributors: Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio, Young Joo Pintaske, Linda Bernal
 How to Contribute: The OpenSolaris Newsletter is a community effort, and all community members are welcome to participate. Simply send news items to program-team mail list or the opensolaris-discuss mail list. The editor will keep track of contributions and list the names of participants in each issue. Also, the editorial team is looking for feedback on the content and format of the newsletter, so please feel free to suggest changes.

OpenSolaris Newsletter: Feb 2007

Overview

In February, the OpenSolaris Community was busy participating at user groups and conferences around the world, opening projects and portals, contributing code, and finalizing plans for the first OpenSolaris election to select a new governing board and ratify the community governance. Also, right at the end of the month, Sun launched a new program to distribute OpenSolaris Starter Kits to community members around the world.

Quote of the Month

"Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel's server products, said the 'open-sourcing of Solaris' changed Intel's mind about the OS ... [h]e noted that Intel has always been a strong proponent of open source, and applauded recent moves by Sun to make Solaris and Java open source. 'This is a new environment where there [is] a very large Solaris installed base that's moving toward open source.'" - 1/23/07, ZDNet Asia, Intel: Open source drew us to Solaris 

NEW: Free OpenSolaris Starter Kits!

http://www.sun.com/images/e8/e8_opensolaris-starter.jpg

 Sun is now taking orders for the OpenSolaris Starter Kit. Sign up and get a free kit delivered to you in most regions around the world. You can help spread the word about the OpenSolaris Starter Kit with free Starter Kit banner ads, and you can get involved in the Starter Kit Project on opensolaris.org as well.

Community News

 News Summaries

Jive Discussion Forum Data

  • The OpenSolaris community broke two new records on the Jive discussion forums in February with 1,143,699 total hits and 979,986 unique visitors. Threads came in at 1,793 and messages at 7,427. The 181 forums remain the most popular pages on opensolaris.org. For more community metrics, see the Advocacy Community.

Projects & Communities

Conferences:

Contributions to Consolidation Code

  • There were 6 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in February, bringing the total to 150.
  • Thanks to Juergen Keil, John Sonnenschein, Rich Lowe and Dan Sinclair for the ON bug fixes. And thanks to the ON Sun engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: Artem Kachitchkine, Frank Batschulat, Steve lau and Bill Kucharski.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report

User Groups

Technical Status

SCM Work: General

  • New target dates were determined for SCM work:
    • End of beta for Mercurial support on the site is targeted for early March.
    • ON Consolidation moving to Mercurial is targeted for mid-June.
    • ON Consolidation live source repository available is targeted for end of June.
  • A request was sent to SCM volunteers asking for help putting together training materials.

Website

February's Newsletter Contributors

 Editor: Linda Bernal
 Contributors: Eric Boutilier, Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio, Linda Bernal

OpenSolaris Newsletter: March 2007

Overview

Mach was a massive month for website registration growth, web forum conversations growth, the election of the new governing board, and the ratification of the community constitution. It was certainly one of the most active months in the history of OpenSolaris.

Quote of the Month

 "For the target market, we believe Sun has done a fine job of making itself pertinent again to a market segment that a few scant years past would have likely dismissed the notion of Solaris and Sun altogether." - New OpenSolaris distribution for developers, The Register, 3/9/07.

News Summaries

  • Although Sun started to distribute the OpenSolaris Starter Kit in late February, March brought brought thousands of orders and new registrations. By the end of March, there were about 41,000 people registered on opensolaris.org - which represents a doubling of the total registrations on the site in just one month.
  • March was also a big month for traffic to the 188 OpenSolaris Jive discussion forums (access the forums here.) The community broke four records for total web views (1,718,699), unique visitors (1,530,201), threads (2,104), and messages (8,243). For more data on the OpenSolaris Community, see the community metrics page from Patrick Finch in the Marketing Community.
  • The OpenSolaris Community went to the polls in March and elected a new OpenSolaris Governing Board. Eighteen candidates ran for seven seats. Congratulations to the new board members: James Carlson, Alan Coopersmith, Casper Dik, Glynn Foster, Stephen Lau, Rich Teer, and Keith M Wesolowski. Also, a word of thanks to the original CAB/OGB that created the OpenSolaris Charter and Constitution in the first place: Casper Dik, Roy Fielding, Al Hopper, Simon Phipps, and Rich Teer, and also to the governance working group members, Stephen Hahn, Keith Wesolowski, and Ben Rockwood. Part of the election process this month involved the ratification of the OpenSolaris Constitution and a test poll ranking the community's priorities. The new OGB will have regular meetings, publishes minutes, and holds open conversations on their new list, ogb-discuss (subscribe to the list and view/post via the web forum).
  • Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian, joined Sun's Solaris organization in late March.
  • Glynn Foster published his weekly news updates: March 4, March 12, March 19, March 26. And Eric Boutilier published his list activity reports: full archive on del.icio.us. Both Glynn's and Eric's publications offer a unique look into activity within the OpenSolaris Community.

Conferences

  • OpenSolaris Day at Tech Days, Kuala Lumpur was held on March 6th with 123 attendees. There was a lot of discussion around licensing, community activities, and the system giveaway.  For more information and presentations, go to the Kuala Lumpur events page.
  • OpenSolaris Day at Tech Days, London was held on March 13th. This event was held at the beautiful Central Hall Westminster. This agenda had a new session that Simon Phipps presented, "The Zen of Free". For more information and presentations, go to the London events page.
  • OpenSolaris Day at Tech Days, Paris was held on March 19th at the Espace Grande Arche. The welcome session started with approximately 80 people and finished up the day with a community presentation from Ken Tomlinson and Bruno Bonfils. For information and presentations, go to the Paris events page.
  • OpenSolaris also participated in the China Software Innovation Summit in Beijing. Conference presentations and photos can be found here and here.

User Groups

 There were about a dozen user group meetings in March. The Irish OpenSolaris User Group held their 7th meeting with Tim Foster presenting "An Introduction on OpenSolaris" and Fintan Ryan talking about building, installing, and BFUing.  The Front Range OpenSolaris User Group also met in March to hear about "Sharsmgr" from Doug McCallum. And the CZOSUG meeting was based on Moinak Ghosh's & Vineeth Pillai's visit in Prague. Moinak presented his favorite topic - Livemedia and Vineeth continued with presentation about BrandZ.

New Projects and Communities

 New projects continue to open on OpenSolaris with eight coming online in March:

 And 10 new projects were proposed: Fault Management Event Registry, Java kstats; Summer of Code, User Mode Driver, NFSv4 namespace extension; Mozilla DTrace project, NFS Server in Local Zones, Kernel Sockets, Pluggable Sockets, and Next Generation Webstack. Currently, there are 81projects on OpenSolaris with another 30 or so in the planning stages.

Technical Status

Website

    • Entries in the category drop-down re-done to show the true Bugster product/category (solaris/c++) with plan text description information next to each one (e.g., solaris/c++ (Solaris Libraries)).
    • State field has plain text description next to it (e.g., State: 5-Cause Known (Bug is root caused)).
    • Responsible Engineer field displays multi-part names correctly.

Contributions to Consolidation Code

  • There was one code contribution put back into OpenSolaris in March, bringing the total to 151.
  • Thanks to Rich Lowe for the ON bug fix. And thanks to the ON Sun engineer Steve Lau 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

March's Newsletter Contributors

 Editor: Linda Bernal
 Contributors: Eric Boutilier, Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio, Linda Bernal

OpenSolaris Newsletter: April 2007

Quotes of the Month

"Today the market momentum is all with Solaris." - Paul Murphy

"ZFS is a very cool (and open source) file system that some smart guys at Sun built." - Robin Harris

News Summaries

Web Forum Conversations

 April was a big month for traffic to the 190 OpenSolaris Jive discussion forums.

  • Total Views: 2,102,058 (new record)
  • Unique Visitors: 1,923,390 (new record)
  • Total Threads: 2,051
  • Total Messages: 8,155

 For more data on the OpenSolaris Community, see the community metrics page in the Marketing Community.

User Groups

 There were about ten user group meetings in April. Below are a few highlights:

  • The Irish OpenSolaris User Group held their either meeting on April 4th. Roch Bourbonnais, an expert on kernel performance gave a talk on ZFS Performance. On April 16th, a ninth meeting was held. Eoin Hughes and Alberto Ruiz presented OpenSolaris for GNU/Linux Users.
  • The Beijing OpenSolaris User Group met on April 20 for a discussion of the Java Desktop System.
  • The Front Range OpenSolaris User Group met on April 24th, 2007. Dave McLoughlin presented Open Source Management.  In addition, there was an OpenSolaris Update and an InstallFest.
  • The Silicon Valley User Group held a meeting on April 26th. Brendan Gregg presented a DTrace Intro and Update - including the latest on DTrace, the DTraceToolkit, the new DTrace Topics project on Solaris Internals, some cool DTrace demos, and how to be a DTrace Jedi!
  • The Japanese OpenSolaris Community ran a Solaris Night Seminar on April 26th.

Conferences

 OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days in St. Petersburg, Russia was held on April 11th. OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days, Sao Paulo, Brazil was held on April 17th. Presentations and schedules are posted on opensolaris.org.

New Projects and Communities

 New development projects continue to be proposed and opened on OpenSolaris in April
  6 Projects Opened 

  9 Projects Proposed 

  • Input Method
  • CPK Cryptosystem
  • busybox-ksh93
  • Tadpole Platform Support
  • Tesla
  • Open Fabrics User Verbs
  • IPoIB
  • SAM-QFS
  • Sensor Abstraction

 Currently, there are more than 87 projects on OpenSolaris with another 30 in the planning stages.

Technical Status

Contributions to Consolidation Code

  • There were 3 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in April, bringing the total to 155.
  • Thanks to Garrett D'Amore, Roland Mainz and David Simonson for ON bug fixes. And thanks to the ON Sun engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: Garrett D'Amore, Mike Kupfer and Mark Musante.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.
    • Technical Status: New Components 
  • The Documentation consolidation published source for two more books on Apr 12th (see the docs download page for detail):
    • System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP) 
    • System Administration Guide: Network Services
    • Technical Status: Website 
  • New OpenGrok with project support deployed 4/6/07.
    • Technical Status: SCM Work: Mercurial 
  • Mercurial support on the website is out of beta.

April's Newsletter Contributors

 Editor: Linda Bernal
 Contributors: Eric Boutilier, Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio, Linda Bernal

OpenSolaris Newsletter: May 2007

Quote of the Month

"I would claim the single most important element in the resurgence of Sun has not been the rise of our server business, but the rise of our Solaris business." - Jonathan Schwartz in Cnet, May 22nd

News Summaries

Web Forum Conversations

 May was a record month for Jive discussion forum activity. In total, we are at 17,292,484 total views, 13,684,182 unique visitors, 28,979 threads, and 115,990 messages on the Jive forums. Graphs here. There are now 203 OpenSolaris lists. The May Forum Numbers

  • Total Views: 2,180,782 (new record)
  • Unique Visitors: 2,006,412 (new record)
  • Total Threads: 2,179 (new record)
  • Total Messages: 9,603 (new record) 

 For more data on the OpenSolaris Community, see the community metrics page in the Marketing Community.

User Groups

 There were more than a dozen user group meetings in May. Below are a few highlights:

  • The NLOSUG (Netherlands OpenSolaris User Group) met on May 3rd. Topics of discussion included: NLOSUG update and Solaris Network Virtualization with Crossbow. 
  • The ATLOSUG (Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group) met on May 8th, where Ryan Matteson discussed iSCSI and OpenSolaris.
  • The FLOSUG (Florida OpenSolaris User Group) met on May 14th in Ft. Lauderdale, May 15th in Tampa, and May 16th in Orlando. Bill Nelson presented on Identity Management.
  • The LOSUG (London OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on May 16th.  Jarod Nash, TSC Systems Engineer, presented ZFS: Under the Hood.
  • The DFWOSUG (Dallas/Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group) met on May 17th.  Jeff Savit, a Principal Engineer, gave a talk on Virtualizing Solaris. 
  • The STLOSUG (St.Louis OpenSolaris User Group) met on May 22nd with Bob Netherton presenting Virtualizing Solaris: The Big Rules for Zones, Xen, LDOMs and VMware.
  • The SVOSUG (Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group) met on May 24th.  Ian Murdock, Chief Operating Platform Strategist for Sun, talked about Project Indiana. Ian was joined by newly elected OGB board member, Glynn Foster, Desktop Engineer working on the Java Desktop Systems for Sun.
  • The FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) met on Thursday, May 31, 2007.  Brad Lewis and Tim Jacobson presented on Sun Studio 12 Compilers and Tools. In addition, an OpenSolaris Update and Install Fest was held. 
  • The IEOSUG (Irish OpenSolaris User Group) held their 10th meeting on May 29th. Fintan Ryan presented on Service Management Facility (smf).

Conferences

  • In early May, the OpenSolaris Community met in San Francisco for CommunityOne at Sun's JavaOne Conference. During this period, Project Indiana became known and started a media and community conversation that still continues.
  • The community met at OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days Mexico City, Mexico on May 18th. Download presentations here.
  • On May 31st, Grzegorz Rumatowski presented OpenSolaris at the Viennese Linux Weeks and began planning for the new Austrian OpenSolaris User Group.
  • Also on May 31st, the SPOSUG (Spain OpenSolaris User Group) met at OpenSolaris Day in Madrid, Spain. See photos from David Galán.
  • The OpenSolaris Community in Tokyo participated in Sun Japan's Business.Next Conference on May 23rd. There were a couple of thousand people there attending various events. OpenSolaris (presented by Akira Ohsone) was part of an all day community track, which included sessions on Java, Open Source, Ruby, NetBeans, Web 2.0, and PostgreSQL.
  • At the end of May, community members from RUOSUG (Russia OpenSolaris User Group) participated at the LinuxTag Conference in Berlin (photos here, here, here on the LinuxTag site) for Sun Studio presentations and an installfest among other events. Also, community members from the GOSUG (German OpenSolaris User Group) and the German Unix User Group (photos) participated at the show. Sun's Martin Mann presented Nexenta in one of the sessions.

New Projects and Communities

 New development projects continue to be proposed and opened on OpenSolaris in April
   7 Projects Opened

  6 Projects Proposed

  • Sensor Abstraction Layer for the Solaris Fault Manager
  • FMA support for x86 Machine-Check Architecture
  • Virtual Network Machines
  • Programming Contest
  • Emulex Fibre Channel Device Driver
  • Project Indiana

 Currently, there are more than 100 projects on OpenSolaris with another 30 in the planning stages.

Technical Status

Contributions to Consolidation Code

  • There were 8 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris via the request-sponsor program in May, bringing the total to 165.
  • Thanks to Jeremy Teo, Roland Mainz, River Tarnell, and Scott Heimer for bug fixes. Also thanks to Sun ON engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: Peter Harvey, Alan Maguire, Carol Fields, Casper Dik, and Mike Kupfer.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.


 New Components

  • The Man Page Consolidation posted source on May 24th for the third set of 622 man pages.

Website 

  • New multilingual pages - the sign in, registration, password reset, and profile update pages on opensolaris.org are now offered in Japanese and Chinese.
  • Website Portals: The China Portal opened on May 23rd and Poland Portal opened on May 17th. Full portal project status here.
    • New Distribution Releases
  • NexentaOS Alpha 7 was available for download on May 15th. Download
  • BeleniX 0.6 was released on May 23rd. Download.

May's Newsletter Contributors

 Editor: Linda Bernal
 Contributors: Eric Boutilier, Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio, David Galan Ortiz, Alexander Gorshenev, Grzegorz Rumatowski, Wolfgang Stief, Dirk Wetter.

OpenSolaris Newsletter: June/July 2007

Quote of the Month

 "The open sourcing of Solaris allows us to exist." - Joyent CEO David Young

News Bits

 News about OpenSolaris can be found on the community's announce list. Sign up to opensolaris-announce here. Also, news about OpenSolaris can be found on the community's News page. Below are additions news items:

  • Conversations Data: For 26 months, the 218 OpenSolaris lists/forums have generated 22,364,780 web views, 18,425,546 million unique visitors, 32,851 discussion threads, and 131,136 messages. Monthly graphs here.
  • Community News: The OpenSolaris news page on opensolaris.org is now maintained by the Advocacy Community Group by the Advocacy Community Group by Terri Molini, Joe G, and Bob Wientzen. Post articles to news-discuss. You can find background on this issue on advocacy-discuss.
  • Advocacy News Maintainers are Terri Molini, Joe G, and Bob Wientzen, and they volunteered via an open discussion in the Advocacy CG. They will evolve the news page and any necessary processes in collaboration with the community.

User Group Projects

 The OpenSolaris User Groups are migrating to project spaces as part of the creation of the Advocacy Community Group. For updates see Jim Grisanzio (here, here). Here are some items from individual user groups recently.
July

  • SOSUG (Sydney OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on  Monday July 9th.  Glynn Foster gave a talk on Project Indiana, a project that aims to create a new distribution of OpenSolaris that's more familiar to users of GNU/Linux.
  • IE-OSUG (Irish OpenSolaris User Group) held their 12th meeting on July 12th.  Glynn Foster gave a talk on Project Indiana, a project that aims to create a new distribution of OpenSolaris that's more familiar to users of GNU/Linux.
  • LOSUG (London OpenSolaris User Group) met on July 18th.  Peter Tribble, member of the OpenSolaris community will present a brief explanation of what Solaris kstats are & specifically what project JKstat is, followed by a demo of jkstat in action.  James MacFarlane, Solaris RPE Staff Engineer gave a step-by-step walk through of how to turn a system into an OpenSolaris build server and how to use it to make your own changes to the source code.
  • DFWOSUG (Dallas/Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on July 19th.  Bob Netherton gave an overview of Solaris Developer Express.
  • FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) met on Thursday, July 26, 2007.  Nick Solter gave a presentation on Open High Availability Cluster, which was recently released on opensolaris.org. In addition, there was an OpenSolaris Update.
  • SVOSUG (Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group) met on Thursday, July 26. Eric Saxe presented "OpenSolaris scheduling and processor management."

June

  • The ALAMOSUG (San Antonio OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on June 6th to discuss the Sun blade modular systems launch. 
  • The CROSUG (Capital Region OpenSolaris User Group) was held at the conclusion of OpenSolaris Day on June 6th.
  • The ATLOSUG (Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group) met on June 12th.  Jeff Bounds gave a talk on "Using OpenSolaris and Solaris Express Developer Edition for Development".  Mike Sweeney will also talked about SXDE in general - what goes into it, release schedule, etc.
  • The STLOSUG (St. Louis OpenSolaris User Group) gathered on June 19th.  Jeff Logullo presented Partioning, Multi-bootign, and Solaris.
  • The LOSUG (London OpenSolaris User Group) met on June 20th to present "Solaris Troubleshooting –  The Unofficial Tourist Guide" as a topic of discussion. 
  • The SDOSUG (San Diego OpenSolaris User Group) held their second meeting on June 20th.  Scott  presented an overview of the Predictive Self Healing feature of OpenSolaris, also referred to as the Fault Management Architecture (FMA).
  • The DFWOSUG (Dallas/Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group) met on June 21st.  The evening started with an install fest, followed by a Meet nad Greet session and ended with a presentation on "Virtualizing Soalris Series"
  • The HOSUG (Hyderabad OpenSolaris User Group) met on June 23rd. 
  • The FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) gathered on Thursday, June 28. Bonnie Corwin  gave an OpenSolaris Engineering Update. In addition, we will be celebrating the 2-year OpenSolaris anniversary!

Conferences

  • O'Reilly Open Source Convention was held July 23rd -27th. See Barton George (here, here, here) and Adam Leventhal (here, here, here).
  • OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days Washington DC was held on June 6th. Download presentations here.

Technical

New Components

  • Globalization (G11N) released source code on July 5th for the Solaris Cluster Agents and is now available as part of the Open High Availability Cluster code base.
  • The Sharemgr test suite was released on July 20th.
  • The Man Page consolidation released source for fourth set of 306 man pages on June 21st.

Contributions to Consolidation Code

  • There was 1 code contribution put back into OpenSolaris in July, bringing the total to 170. Thanks to Juergen Keil for the bug fix. And thanks to the Sun engineer Lin Ling for sponsoring the code through to putback.
  • There was 1 code contribution put back into OpenSolaris in June. Thanks to Henry Grebler for the bug fix. And thanks to the Sun engineer Michael Hunter 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 

June/July's Newsletter Contributors

 Linda Bernal, Eric Boutilier, Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio.

OpenSolaris Newsletter: Aug/Sept 2007

Code for Freedom:

  • The OpenSolaris Community in India is participating in Sun's Code for
     Freedom Contest with the GlassFish, NetBeans, Apache Derby, and Open
     Portal communities. The contest is designed to increase participation in
     open source and encourage academic developers to contribute code.
     Contest info here: http://in.sun.com/communities/univ/codeforfreedom/

User Groups:

 August

  • The ATL-OSUG (Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group) had a meeting on August 14th, Scott Dickson presented "Dynamic Resource Pools in Nevada".
  • The IE-OSUG (Irish OpenSolaris User Group) got together on August 14th.  Nick Solter presented "Discovering Open High Availability Cluster".
  • The SVOSUG (Silicon valley user group) met on Thursday, August 23.  Alan Coopersmith (OGB) and Stuart Kreitman from the X team, and Alan DuBoff conducted a presentation on the Desktop. 
  • The CMH-OSUG (Columbus Ohio OpenSolaris User Group) had their 2nd inaugural meeting on August 30th.  The topic of discussion was "Installing Solaris Express Developer Edition."
  • The FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) met on Thursday, August 30th 2007. Sarah Jelinek gave a presentation on the New Solaris Installer (OpenSolaris Project Caiman).

 September

  • The ALAMOSUG (San Antonio OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on September 5th, to discuss OpenSolaris Futures (Nevada & Virtualization). 
  • The NEOSUG (New England OpenSolaris User Group) met on September 11th, following the Sun Tech Days event.   
  • The MSOSUG (Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group) met on September 12th.  Boyd Adamson presented Live Upgrade and Nathan Kroenert presented The Niagara 2 CPU overview.
  • The SOSUG (Sydney OpenSolaris User Group) met on September 21st.  Alan Hargreaves presented non-debug opensolaris, ZFS and BrandZ.   Brendan Gregg presented DTracing javascript in firefox. 
  • The IOSUG (Irish OpenSolaris User Group) gathered on September 25th, Liam Merwick, an engineer in Sun's SPARC Platform Software group gave a talk on LDoms .
  • The FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) met on September 27th.  Jim walker gave a presentation on OpenSolaris Testing. 
  • The SVOSUG (Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group) met on September 27th to discuss Kernel TCP/IP Evolution, ATS Tool.

Contributions to Consolidation Code:

  • There was 5 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in August and 5 in Spetember bringing the total to 186.
  • Thanks to Juergen Keil, Chad Mynhier, Madhav Chauhan, Pawel Dawidek, Alex Zakharov, and Roland Mainz for the bug fixes.  And thanks to Sun engineers for sponsoring the code through putback:  Ceclilia Hu (Intern)/Artem Kachitchkin (sponsor), Antonello Cruz (intern)/David Buston (sponsor), George Wilson, and April Chin, Dan McDonald and Frank Hofmann.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report 

Technical Components

 New Componets:

  • The Documentation Consolidation released source on August 3rd for:
    • Solaris Express Developer Edition Release Notes
    • Solaris Express Developer Edition What's New
    • Solaris Express Package List
  • The Documentation consolidation also released source on September 4th for:
    • Solaris Express Developer Edition Installation Guide: Laptop Installations 
    • Solaris Express Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations 
    • Solaris Express Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning
  • ON Test released source for the Shared Test Suite and Kerberos Test Tools (krb5tools) on September 21st.

Conferences

  • OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days kicked off the world tour in Boston on September 11th.  You can view more details here.

August/September's Newsletter Conrtibutor's 
 Contributors: Linda Bernal, Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio.
 How to Contribute: The OpenSolaris Newsletter is a community effort, and all community members are welcome to participate. Simply send news items to program-team mail list. The editor will keep track of contributions and list the names of participants in each issue. Also, the editorial team is always looking for feedback on the content and format of the newsletter, so please feel free to suggest changes.

OpenSolaris Newsletter: October 2007

User Groups

Conferences

Technical Status

Self-Service Testing availability

  • The OpenSolaris Self-Service Testing application became available for use by OpenSolaris contributors on 10/18/07.  This application allows developers to run functional and performance tests on their code in a fully-automated fashion prior to integration into the OpenSolaris code base.  For more information see:  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/testing/selftest/  The Self-Service Testing application can be accessed at:
    http://test.opensolaris.org/
  • A code contribution from Jason King was putback to the ON consolidation on 10/6/07 that replaces the old SPARC disassembler code that could not be open sourced.  Thanks to Jason and his sponsor, James McPherson, and all the engineers involved for this great step towards having full open source.

SCM Update

  • SCM Migration Project is progressing.  Due to personnel changes, work on the ON developer and gatekeeper tools is taking longer than expected.  Current target is integration of all the tools in Build 82 (January 2008).  After that integration, the SFW will be the first consolidation will transition its gate and move it to opensolaris.org, followed by the ON consolidation. You can participate in discussion and follow the project on scm-migration-dev@opensolaris.org.  Information about the project is at http://opensolaris.org/os/project/scm-migration/

Indiana

  • Project Indiana made a developer preview available on 10/31/07 that includes "Slim Install" capabilities and new packaging software.  Information is available at http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana.

Contributions to Consolidation Code

  • There was 7 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in October bringing the total to 193.
  • Thanks to Jason King, Roland Mainz, Mark Martin, Chad Mynhier, Cyril Plisko and Ramprakash Thinakaran for the bug fixes.  And thanks to Sun engineers for sponsoring the code through putback:  Renee Danson, Jon Haslam, Mike Kupfer, Dan McDonald, James McPherson, Peter Memishian and Liane Praza.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report 

New Projects

 12 Projects Opened

Also Noteworthy

  • Oct 22nd, Ian Murdock - Sun's Chief Operating Systems Platform Strategist gave a highly successful talk to the Linux developers in Shanghai. A total number of 637 Linux developers attended this exciting event. Each of them received a Solaris 10 Update 4 DVD (for x86/x64), an OpenSolaris DVD, and a Getting Started booklet for OpenSolaris.

October's Newsletter Conrtibutor's 
 Contributors: Linda Bernal, Eric Boutilier, Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio, Jesse Silver.

OpenSolaris Newsletter: November 2007

Quote of the Month

User Groups:

  • The NEOSUG (New England OpenSolaris User Group) held their fourth meeting on November 1st.  Topics of disscusison included Project Indiana and Solaris 8 Migration Assistant.
  • On November 8th in cooperation with the Berlin German User Group there was an OpenSolaris Evening in Berlin. (Two lectures in German language).
  • The ALAMOSUG (San Antonio OpenSolaris User Group) met on Wednesday November 14th, Doug Strickland presented NIS to LDAP Migration.
  • The DFWOSUG (Dallas /Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group) met on Thursday November 15th.  Al Hopper presented ZFS and Containers (Part 2)
  • The STLOSUG (St. Louis OpenSolaris User Group) met on Tuesday November 20th, Dale Somer presented RBAC.
  • The MSOSUG (Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on Wednesday November 21st.  Boyd Adamson and Andre van Eyssen presented Using ZFS in Anger, Andre also presented SSGD for the masses.
  • The IE-OSUG (Irish OpenSolaris User Group) held their 16th meeting on Tuesday November 27th.  Michal Pryc gave a talk on the Image Packaging System[1] - a new package management system for OpenSolaris that will ease the pain of package installation and upgrade.
  • The FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) met on Thursday, November 29th 2007. Charles Baker gave a presentation on "An Introduction to Developing in OpenSolaris".
  • The SVOSUG (Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on Thursday, November 29, 2007.  John Weeks, presented Multilevel Web Services which utilize Trusted Extensions on OpenSolaris.

Conferences:

Technical Status:

 Website

  • A new version of the authentication application module was released on November 12th.  New in this version: the ability to assign membership of projects and communities to members.

Contributions to consolidation code:

  • There was 2 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in November bringing the total to 198.
  • Thanks to Juergen Keil for the bug fixes.  And thanks to Sun engineers for sponsoring the code through putback:  Mark Johnson and Tim Haley.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report 

New Projects:

 5 new projects
 Automatic Data Migration
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/adm
 Direct Rendering Infrastructure & 3D drivers
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/dri
 Link Layer Discovery
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/lld
 Media Management System
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/mms
 Nightingale: Port Songbird to OpenSolaris
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/nightingale
November's Newsletter Conrtibutor's 
 Linda Bernal, Eric Boutilier, Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio.

OpenSolaris Newsletter: Dec 2007 / Jan 2008

Quote of the Month

Noteworthy News:

User Groups

 December

  • The DFWOSUG (Dallas/Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group) met in December where Bob Netherton presented on Project Indiana.
  • The LOSUG (London OpenSolaris User Group) got together on December 19th.  James MacFarlene talked on Solaris 8 Migration Assistant and Isamu Shigemori presented Solaris Utilities and Libraries.
  • The MSOSUG (Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group) met on December 19th.  Andre Van Eyssen presented SSSGD for the masses, Atul Vidwansa presented Lustre on ZFS and Nathan Kroenert spoke on Xen of Solaris Nevada/OpenSolaris.
  • The JPOSUG (Japan OpenSolaris User Group) met to for a Solaris Night Seminar in Tokyo. Photos here. There was two new user groups proposed and approved recently -- Serbia and Porto Alegre. Also, OpenSolaris User Groups can order a User Group Kit for their members until Feb 8th. Kits will include OpenSolaris Starter Kits, t-shirts, baseball hits, and bottle openers. All 58 OpenSolaris User Groups are listed here. To start an OpenSolaris User Group, check with the Advocacy Community Group.

 January

  • The BJOSUG (Beijing OpenSolaris User Group) held their first meeting on January 10th, 2008.  Amiram Hayardeny presented on OpenSolaris, Alex Peng spoke on xVM and Robin Guo presented ZFS.
  • The LOSUG (London OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on January 16th, 2008.  Phil Kirk presented NWAM, Clearview, Brussels, and Crossbow. 
  • The The MSOSUG (Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group) met on January 16th.  Andre Van Eyssen talked on Jumpstart and Jet and Nathan Kroenert presented Ldoms on Sun4v/OpenSolaris.
  • The SDOSUG (San Diego OpenSolaris User Goup) met on January 16th.  Ryan Scott presented Xen Technology in OpenSolaris.
  • The SVOSUG (Silicon Valley OpenSoalris User Group) met on January 24th.  James Hughes presented a live demonstration and discussion of the Indiana preview 1 installation, configuration and upgrade.
  • The IE-OSUG (Irish OpenSolaris User Group) held their 17th meeting on January 31st to discuss news from December and January.

Conferences

Portals:

Technical Status

 New Components

    • Contributions to consolidation code:
  • There were 6 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris via the request-sponsor program in December and two in January,  bringing the total to 210. 
  • Thanks to Garrett D'Amore, Marc Glisse, Shivakumar GN, Masayuki Murayama, Rishi Nair, Rainer Orth, Peter Tribble for bug fixes.  Also thanks to Sun ON engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: David Bustos, Suhasini Peddada, Ethan Quach, Petr Sumbera, Brian Utterback. 
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.

 New Distributions

  • Nexenta Core Platform (NexentaCP) RC2 was available on January 14th.  Download here

New Projects:


December/January's Newsletter Conrtibutor's 
 Contributors: Linda Bernal, Eric Boutilier, Jim Grisanzio
 How to Contribute: The OpenSolaris Newsletter is a community effort, and all community members are welcome to participate. Simply send news items to program-team mail list. The editor will keep track of contributions and list the names of participants in each issue. Also, the editorial team is always looking for feedback on the content and format of the newsletter, so please feel free to suggest changes.

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