OpenSolaris Talks and Presentations
The table below contains presentations that community members have given at user group meetings and conferences around the world. You will also find more material (presentations, audio, video, etc) within the individual user group web spaces and at the Sun Tech Days archives here and here.
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| Date | Speaker/Topic | Where | Archive | Topic |
| 31st August 2008 | Roman Štrobl presents about how to get started with OpenSolaris | Unixalia Warsaw | slides + demo scripts | General |
| 31st August 2008 | Roman Štrobl presents about what makes OpenSolaris interesting | Unixalia Warsaw | slides + demo scripts | General |
| 2nd April 2008 | Adriaan de Groot presents KDE4 op OpenSolaris | NLOSUG | slides | KDE |
| 28th March 2008 | Jeff Cheeney and Son present about the Home NAS Box | FROSUG | slides + video | CIFS, ZFS |
| 6th December 2007 | Frank van der Linden presents x64 Virtualization with the Xen Hypervisor | NLOSUG | slides | General |
| 6th December 2007 | Henk Langeveld presents OpenSolaris and the Korn Shell | NLOSUG | slides | General |
| 5th October 2007 | Takanobu Masuzuki presents OpenSolaris Project Review | Tokyo | slides (Japanese) | General |
| 12th September 2007 | Boyd Adamson presents Live Upgrade: Using and Abusing | MSOSUG | slides | Install |
| 30th August 2007 | Tim Foster presents OpenSolaris news for July/August 2007 | IEOSUG | mp3 audio + show notes + podcast feed | General |
| 26th July 2007 | Eric Saxe presents OpenSolaris Scheduling and CPU Management | SVOSUG | slides | Developer |
| 12th July 2007 | Glynn Foster presents Project Indiana | IEOSUG | slides + blog + audio | General |
| 12th July 2007 | Tim Foster presents June/July '07 in Review | IEOSUG | slides + blog + audio | General |
| 26th June 2007 | Conor Nolan presents OpenSolaris self-test portal | IEOSUG | slides + mp3 audio | Testing |
| 26th June 2007 | Fintan Ryan presents Fintanr's top 5 DTrace one liners | IEOSUG | slides + mp3 audio | DTrace |
| 26th June 2007 | Sean McGrath presents OpenSolaris Resource Controls | IEOSUG | slides + mp3 audio | General |
| 26th June 2007 | Tim Foster presents 2007 – some fast highlights | IEOSUG | slides + mp3 audio | Introduction |
| 26th June 2007 | Tim Foster presents BFU^HI – A Blindingly Fast Introduction to OpenSolaris | IEOSUG | slides + mp3 audio | Introduction |
| 26th June 2007 | Tim Foster presents Why you should (and shouldn't!) run OpenSolaris on your laptop | IEOSUG | slides + mp3 audio | General |
| 15th May 2007 | Jaromír Sedláček presents Packaging | CZOSUG | slides + pkg1 + pkg2 + video | Packaging |
| 15th May 2007 | Ľuboš Koščo presents N1 | CZOSUG | slides + N1 SM (swf) + N1 SPS (swf) | General |
| 18th April 2007 | Lukáš Rovenský presents OpenSolaris Distributions | LinuxExpo 2007 CZ | slides (czech) | Distributions |
| 18th April 2007 | Petr Hruška presents Input Method (XKBD,IIIM/XIM) | CZOSUG | slides | I18n |
| 27th March 2007 | Fintan Ryan presents Building & Deploying OpenSolaris | IEOSUG | slides + blog post | Developer |
| 27th March 2007 | Tim Foster presents OpenSolaris - March in review | IEOSUG | slides | General |
| 27th March 2007 | Tim Foster presents OpenSolaris by numbers | IEOSUG | slides + notes + blog post | General |
| 22nd March 2007 | John Beck presents Network Automagic | SVOSUG | slides | Networking |
| 6th March 2007 | Moinak Ghosh presents Livemedia technologies for OpenSolaris | CZOSUG | slides + video (more formats) | Distributions |
| 6th March 2007 | Vineeth Pillai presents BrandZ | CZOSUG | slides | BrandZ |
| 2nd March 2007 | Alan Perry presents Porting MythTV to OpenSolaris and the Mac Mini | OpenSolaris Developer Conference | slides + photos | Developer |
| 2nd March 2007 | Damien Carbery presents pkgbuild - Building Solaris packages using RPM-like recipes | OpenSolaris Developer Conference | slides + photos | General |
| 2nd March 2007 | Jim Grisanzio presents The OpenSolaris Story: Opening in a Storm (closing note) | OpenSolaris Developer Conference | slides + photos | General |
| 2nd March 2007 | Jörg Schilling presents SchilliX creating an OpenSolaris distro | OpenSolaris Developer Conference | slides + photos | Distributions |
| 2nd March 2007 | Martin Bochnig presents Future Development of the "marTux OpenSolaris" Distro | OpenSolaris Developer Conference | slides + photos | Distributions |
| 2nd March 2007 | Martin Man presents Debian/GNU + OpenSolaris = Nexenta | OpenSolaris Developer Conference | photos | Distributions |
| 2nd March 2007 | Moinak Ghosh presents LiveMedia Technologies for OpenSolaris | OpenSolaris Developer Conference | slides + photos | Distributions |
| 2nd March 2007 | Roy T. Fielding presents Engineer for Serendipity (keynote) | OpenSolaris Developer Conference | slides + photos | General |
| 1st March 2007 | Detlef Drewanz presents Let SMF handle your service | OpenSolaris Developer Conference | slides + photos | SMF |
| 1st March 2007 | Roland Mainz presents Overview of the OpenSolaris Korn Shell 93 Integration Project | OpenSolaris Developer Conference | slides + photos | Developer |
| 1st March 2007 | Simon Phipps presents The Zen of Free (keynote) | OpenSolaris Developer Conference | photos | General |
| 1st March 2007 | Slava Leanovich presents Name Services in OpenSolaris | OpenSolaris Developer Conference | slides + photos | Networking |
| 1st March 2007 | Thomas Nau presents Looking into the black-box - how the kernel may impact your application | OpenSolaris Developer Conference | slides + photos | Developer |
| 1st March 2007 | Thorleif Wiik presents Web 2.0 ready with OpenSolaris | OpenSolaris Developer Conference | slides + photos | General |
| 1st March 2007 | Wolfgang Ley presents How to make your program privilege aware | OpenSolaris Developer Conference | slides + paper + photos | Security |
| 1st March 2007 | Zdenek Kotala presents Elephant on Solaris | OpenSolaris Developer Conference | slides + photos | Developer |
| 26th February 2007 | Rami Rosen presents OpenSolaris Overview | HAIFUX | slides | General |
| 21st February 2007 | Martin Man presents GNU/Solaris (Nexenta) | CZOSUG | slides + apt-get (swf) + personality (swf) + rails (swf) | Distributions |
| 21st February 2007 | Zdeněk Kotala presents PostgreSQL | CZOSUG | slides | General |
| 20th February 2007 | Tim Foster presents OpenSolaris in review : September 2006 - February 2007 | IEOSUG | slides | General |
| 25th January 2007 | Paul van den Bogaard presents A DTrace case study | NLOSUG | slides + article | DTrace |
| 25th January 2007 | Peter van Gemert presents What's new in Solaris 10 11/06 and beyond | NLOSUG | slides | General |
| 10th January 2007 | Darren Reed presents Advances in Solaris Networking | CZOSUG | slides + video (more formats) | Networking |
| 10th January 2007 | Jan Kopřiva presents OpenGrok | CZOSUG | slides | Developer |
| 13th December 2006 | Jiří Červenka presents hg(1) or Mercurial | CZOSUG | slides + images | Developer |
| 14th November 2006 | Martin Červený presents OpenSolaris 2006 | CZOSUG | slides (czech) | General |
| 26th October 2006 | Darren Moffat presents OpenSolaris Development and ZFS crypro | NLOSUG | slides | ZFS |
| 26th October 2006 | Remco Fugers presents OpenSolaris StarterKit | NLOSUG | slides | General |
| 24th October 2006 | Bill Knoche presents Porting Linux Applications to Solaris | FROSUG | slides | Developer |
| 21st October 2006 | Frank Hofmann presents Solaris Virtualization and the Xen Hypervisor | CZOSUG | slides + photos | Xen |
| 21st October 2006 | Jiří Červenka presents Xen-aware OSes – brief status overview | CZOSUG | slides + video (czech) (more formats) + photos | Xen |
| 21st October 2006 | Johannes Schindelin presents QEMU - a Xen alternative | CZOSUG | slides + video (more formats) + photos | Xen |
| 21st October 2006 | Luboš Koščo, Milan Juřík present Xen Hibernate Migration | CZOSUG | slides + photos | Xen |
| 21st October 2006 | Michal Švamberg presents Xen at the University of West Bohemia | CZOSUG | slides (czech) + video (czech) (more formats) + photos | Xen |
| 21st October 2006 | Milan Juřík presents Life with dom0/domU | CZOSUG | video (czech) (more formats) + photos | Xen |
| 26th September 2006 | Lisa Week presents Parallel NFS (pNFS) | FROSUG | slides | Networking |
| 7th September 2006 | Glenn Faden, Darren Moffat & Scott Rotondo present New Security Features in OpenSolaris | Seattle Sun Tech Day | slides | Security |
| 7th September 2006 | Nicholas Droux presents OpenSolaris Virtulization Technologies | Seattle Sun Tech Day | slides | General |
| 7th September 2006 | Richard McDougall & Jim Mauro present Solaris 10/OpenSolaris Performance, Observability and Debugging (POD) | Seattle Sun Tech Day | slides | Developer |
| 7th September 2006 | Stephen Hahn presents Building and Deploying OpenSolaris | Seattle Sun Tech Day | slides | Developer |
| 7th September 2006 | Victor Latushkin presents ZFS, The Last Word In Filesystems | MOSUG | slides (Russian) | ZFS |
| 29th August 2006 | Tim Foster presents August in review | IEOSUG | slides | General |
| 25th August 2006 | Sunay Tripathi presents CrossBow: Network Virtualization and Resource Control | SVOSUG | slides | Networking |
| 25th July 2006 | Sean McGrath presents DTrace Introduction | IEOSUG | slides | DTrace |
| 25th July 2006 | Tim Foster presents July in review | IEOSUG | writeup | General |
| 11th July 2006 | Darryl Gove presents Cool Tools for SPARC Systems | CZOSUG | slides | Developer |
| 27th June 2006 | Sanjay Nadkarni presents The Future of Install on OpenSolaris | FROSUG | slides | Install |
| 14th June 2006 | Tim Foster presents OpenSolaris, the year in review | IEOSUG | slides | General |
| 13th June 2006 | Aleš Černošek, Jan Trejbal present Internationalization and Localization in OpenSolaris | CZOSUG | slides | I18n |
| 13th June 2006 | Marcel Telka presents Slovak GNOME Localization | CZOSUG | slides | I18n |
| 13th June 2006 | Scott Dickson presents ZFS & Zones Integration | ATLOSUG | blog post | Zones |
| 23th May 2006 | Dave Hagerty Presents Installing OpenSolaris and Sun Studio Development Tools | FROSUG | slides | Install |
| 9th May 2006 | Scott Dickson presents BrandZ - Running Linux Applications in a Zone | ATLOSUG | slides | Zones |
| 5th May 2006 | Tomáš Heran presents Service Management Facility (smf(5)) | CZOSUG | slides | SMF |
| 5th May 2006 | Vladimír Kotal, Milan Juřík present Binary packages for OpenSolaris (Companion Software/Solaris Freeware, Sun Freeware, Blastwave) | CZOSUG | slides | Packaging |
| 29th April 2006 | Stephen Potter presents An Introduction to OpenSolaris | COLUG | slides | General |
| 20th April 2006 | Stuart Maybee presents Solaris and Xen | FROSUG | slides | Xen |
| 15th April 2006 | Afsin Taskiran presents Introduction to OpenSolaris | TOSUG | slides + photos | General |
| 11th April 2006 | Frank Hofmann presents How to write a filesystem driver for Solaris | CZOSUG | slides + video (more formats) + photos | Device Drivers |
| 11th April 2006 | Ľuboš Koščo, Martin Man present Sun Grid Engine | CZOSUG | slides + video (czech) (more formats) + photos | Grid |
| 10th April 2006 | Ladislav Pecen presents OpenSolaris | LinuxExpo 2006 CZ | slides (czech) | General |
| 10th April 2006 | Lukáš Rovenský presents CZOSUG | LinuxExpo 2006 CZ | slides (czech) | General |
| 9th April 2006 | Frank DiMambro presents High Performance DLPI Drivers | NITWOSUG | slides | Device Drivers |
| 23rd March 2006 | Dan Price presents What is Solaris Nevada - Nevada at 37 | SVOSUG | slides + blog post | General |
| 18th March 2006 | Anish Gupta presents OpenSolaris Driver Development Primer | NITWOSUG | slides | Device Drivers |
| 12th March 2006 | Detlef Drewanz presents BrandZ - Solaris Containers for Linux | CeBIT '06 | slides | BrandZ |
| 12th March 2006 | Thomas Nau presents ZFS - Looking at 18+ months ZFS experience | CeBIT '06 | slides | ZFS |
| 12th March 2006 | Ulrich Gräf presents ZFS - The Last Word in Filesystems | CeBIT '06 | slides | ZFS |
| 11th March 2006 | Martin Červený presents OpenSolaris Administration Fundamentals | CZOSUG | slides (czech) + photos | General |
| 11th March 2006 | Martin Červený presents OpenSolaris Kernel Modules/Device Drivers Development | CZOSUG | slides (czech) + photos | Device Drivers |
| 11th March 2006 | Vladimír Kotal, Jan Pechanec present Installfest - Simple Solaris Instalation | CZOSUG | slides + photos | Install |
| 11th March 2006 | Víťa Bátrla, Petr Šumbera, Milan Juřík present CDMA USB modem | CZOSUG | slides + photos | Device Drivers |
| 3rd March 2006 | Eric Lowe presents Observing the OpenSolaris Kernel | SIGCSE '06 | slides + blog post | Developer |
| 3rd March 2006 | Russ Blaine presents Brand Z/Containers for Linux Applications | SIGCSE '06 | slides | BrandZ |
| 26th February 2006 | Jon Haslam presents DTrace:Seeing is Believing | FOSDEM '06 | slides + video | DTrace |
| 25th Febuary 2006 | Jon Haslam presents A DTrace Tutorial | FOSDEM '06 | video | DTrace |
| 21st February 2006 | Martin Červený presents OpenSolaris 2005 | CZOSUG | slides (czech) + photos | General |
| 19th February 2006 | Keith Wesolowski presents OpenSolaris for Contributors | TechnoZion '06 | slides | Developer |
| 26th January 2006 | Max Bruning presents An Overview of Device Drivers on Solaris | SVOSUG | photos | Device Drivers |
| 25th January 2006 | Alan Hargreaves presents Non-Debug OpenSolaris | SOSUG | slides + (non-live) mp3 of presentation + blog post | Developer |
| 25th January 2006 | James McPherson presents Getting to know the SAN stack | SOSUG | slides | Storage |
| 19th January 2006 | Mark Maybee presents ZFS The Last Word In Filesystems | FROSUG | slides + photos + blog post | ZFS |
| 10th January 2006 | Frank Hofmann presents OS Virtualization (VMWare, Xen / Hypervisors, BrandZ) | CZOSUG | slides + photos + photos | General |
| 10th January 2006 | Scott Dickson presents Installing & Building OpenSolaris | ATLOSUG | slides | Developer |
| 23rd December 2005 | Ben Rockwood presents An Introduction to OpenSolaris | BayLISA | video | General |
| 19th December 2005 | Jon Haslam and Adam Leventhal present DTrace Internals | LOSUG | photos | DTrace |
| 19th December 2005 | Random people ( David Edmondson, Phil Harman, Darren Moffat) present Lightning Talks! | LOSUG | xen slides + libmicro slides + crypto slides + more photos | General |
| 19th December 2005 | Tim Graves presents ZFS overview and demo | LOSUG | slides + photos | ZFS |
| 10th December 2005 | Moinak Ghosh presents an Introduction to BeleniX | BOSUG | photos | General |
| 10th December 2005 | Sriram Popuri presents Zones - A Virtualized OS Environment | BOSUG | slides + photos | Zones |
| 7th December 2005 | Bill Moore presents ZFS: The Last Word In File Systems | LISA '05 | slides + photos | ZFS |
| 5th December 2005 | Mike Hayden presents Open Source, Open Standards & OpenSolaris | OpenSolaris OS Curricula workshop | slides + photos | General |
| 3rd December 2005 | Mark Nelson presents Plugging into OpenSolaris | BJOSUG | plugging into slides + photos | General |
| 3rd December 2005 | Max Bruning presents A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernels and Device Drivers | BJOSUG | introduction slides (Chinese) + device driver slides + photos | Device Drivers |
| 1st December 2005 | Cyril Plisko presents OpenSolaris Community Resources | IOSUG | slides | General |
| 29th November 2005 | Eric Saxe presents DTrace Overview | UCSD | slides + dtrace demo scriptshttp://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=3963&tstart=0 | DTrace |
| 29th November 2005 | Stephen Lau presents OpenSolaris | UCSD | opensolaris slideshttp://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=3963&tstart=0 | General |
| 24th November 2005 | Iwan Rahabok & Nathan Phua present Kernel Overview | SGOSUG | part 1 slides + part 2 slides | Developer |
| 22nd November 2005 | Jeff Bonwick presents ZFS: The Last Word In File Systems | SVOSUG | video | ZFS |
| 17th November 2005 | Sam Falkner presents An Introduction To DTrace | FROSUG | slides | DTrace |
| 10th November 2005 | Frank Hofmann presents DTrace backend implementation on Solaris/x86-x64 | CZOSUG | slides + photos + photos | DTrace |
| 10th November 2005 | Jim Grisanzio & Akira Osohone present The OpenSolaris Story | JavaONE Tokyo | BOF slides + session slides (Japanese) + BOF photos + session photos | General |
| 10th November 2005 | Petr Šumbera presents OpenSolaris Distributions | CZOSUG | slides + photos + photos | Distributions |
| 8th November 2005 | Muppalla Sridhar presents Opportunities For Education | NITWOSUG | slides | Education |
| 8th November 2005 | Scott Dickson presents An Introduction To OpenSolaris | ATLOSUG | slides + photo1 + photo2 + photo3 | General |
| 31st October 2005 | Teresa Giacomini presents OpenSolaris : Opportunities for Education | ATX-OSUG | slides | Education |
| 29th October 2005 | Joey Guo presents OpenSolaris building & installation | BJOSUG | photos | Developer |
| 29th October 2005 | Vincent Liu presents Solaris DTrace | BJOSUG | slides + photos | DTrace |
| 25th October 2005 | Simon Phipps presents The Zen Of Free : The Truth About Open Source | FROSUG | slides + photos | General |
| 18th October 2005 | Teresa Giacomini presents OpenSolaris : Opportunities for Education | GLUG | slides | Education |
| 17th October 2005 | Bryan Cantrill presents DTrace Tricks and Tips | SOSUG | video | DTrace |
| 17th October 2005 | James McPherson presents ZFS | SOSUG | slides + ZFS video | ZFS |
| 16th October 2005 | Martin Červený presents Introduction to OpenSolaris kernel | CZOSUG at OpenWeekend | slides (czech) + photos + photos | Developer |
| 16th October 2005 | Martin Červený presents OpenSolaris Security | CZOSUG at OpenWeekend | slides (czech) + video (czech) (more formats) + photos + photos | Security |
| 15th October 2005 | Erik Nordmark presents Solaris Networking | BJOSUG | slides + Picture 1 + Picture 2 + Picture 3 | Networking |
| 15th October 2005 | Lukáš Rovenský, Jirí Šašek, Petr Šumbera and other Prague engineers present A Panel discussion about OpenSolaris | CZOSUG at OpenWeekend | slides + photos + photos | General |
| 15th October 2005 | Robert Milkowski presents DTrace | CZOSUG at OpenWeekend | slides + video (more formats) + photos + photos | DTrace |
| 15th October 2005 | Sin-Yaw Wang presents OpenSolaris | BJOSUG | slides + Picture 1 + Picture 2 + Picture 3 | General |
| 7th October 2005 | Sriram Popuri & Pavan T C present an Introduction to OpenSolaris | BOSUG | slides | General |
| 30th September 2005 | Alvaro López Ortega presents OpenSolaris | 4to Festival GNU/Linux y Software Libre | blurb + slides (Spanish) + photos | General |
| 29th September 2005 | Dario Leon presents Solaris Zones | VOSUG | zones slides | Zones |
| 29th September 2005 | Pedro Gómez presents Descripción del proyecto OpenSolaris | VOSUG | intro slides (Spanish) | General |
| 27th September 2005 | Darren Moffat presents OpenSolaris Security For Geeks | IEOSUG | slides + mp3 (part 1) (part 2) | Security |
| 22nd September 2005 | Glynn Foster presents JDS & OpenSolaris : an open desktop on an open platform | Beijing University | slides | Desktop |
| 14th September 2005 | Kjell Högström & Lars Tunkrans present OpenSolaris Introduction | SWOSUG | intro slides | General |
| 14th September 2005 | Lars Tunkrans presents OpenSolaris Installation & Compilation | SWOSUG | install/compile slides (Swedish) | Developer |
| 30th August 2005 | David Comay presents Zones | SVOSUG | slides | Zones |
| 25th August 2005 | Seng-Quee & Sam Tan present CDDL & OpenSolaris Introduction | SGOSUG | CDDL slides + slides | General |
| 25th August 2005 | Seng-Quee presents Compiling & installing OpenSolaris | SGOSUG | slides | Developer |
| 18th August 2005 | Adam Leventhal's DTrace Boot Camp | (many venues) | slides | DTrace |
| 16th August 2005 | Alan Hargreaves presents Chewing the bite-size bugs | SOSUG | slides + recording of a scripted summary (mp3) | Developer |
| 12th August 2005 | Jerry Jelinek presents An introduction to OpenSolaris | FROSUG | slides | General |
| 26th July 2005 | Mike Shapiro presents FMA | SVOSUG | slides + photos | FMA |
| 28th June 2005 | Keith Wesolowski & Mike Kupfer present Building OpenSolaris | SVOSUG | video | Developer |
| 20th June 2005 | Peter C. Tribble presents Why OpenSolaris | LOSUG | slides | General |
| 20th June 2005 | Simon Phipps presents OpenSolaris from the Inside | LOSUG | slides | General |
| 20th June 2005 | Ulf Andreasson presents Welcome & Intro, | LOSUG | slides | General |
| 1st June 2005 | Eric Schrock & Dave Powell present Solaris 10/OpenSolaris technical overview | talk at FISL | slides | General |
| 31st May 2005 | Darren Moffat presents Security (Also, Project Looking Glass) | SVOSUG | video | Security |
| 26th April 2005 | Liane Praza presents SMF (Also, Jan Setje-Eilers presents NewBoot) | SVOSUG | video + slides | SMF |