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1: =Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group
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13: === Proud to be the world’s first OpenSolaris User Group
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15: === **Welcome!**
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18: ===Participate
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26: ====Email
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28: Participate in the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group (SVOSUG) **discussion forum** at the [[Jive forum>>http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=61]] or the [[Mailman interface>>http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-svosug]]. To subscribe, see "Subscribing to ug-svosug" on the [[mailman page>>http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-svosug]] or send an empty email to ug-svosug dash subscribe at opensolaris dot org
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30: ====Meetings
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32: **Next meeting:** Thursday, December 17?
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34: We meet on the fourth Thursday of each month, 7:30pm - 10pm. Meetings are typically held at the Mansion on the Sun Santa Clara Campus, building SCA07.
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36: Directions to the Santa Clara Campus:
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38: 1. Get to Montague Expressway from 101, 880, or 680.
39: 1. Near the 101 end of Montague, exit onto Lafayette Street. Head northeast on Lafayette.
40: 1. Turn right at the light at Palm Drive.
41: 1. The Mansion is on your left, labeled SC07. [[map>>http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Palm+Dr,+Santa+Clara,+CA+95054&sll=37.39176,-121.952534&sspn=0.011814,0.019183&g=4210+Network+Circle,+Santa+Clara,+CA+95054&ie=UTF8&ll=37.393158,-121.95424&spn=0.011814,0.019183&z=16]]
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48: ====News
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50: [[**User Groups: Joys & Challenges**>>https://slx.sun.com/1179275754]] **A Conversation with John Weeks & Rafael Vanoni** is a video in which John and Rafael (from the [[San Francisco user group>>User Group sfosug.WebHome]]) discuss OpenSolaris user group topics such as membership and meeting activities.
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52: **James Liu and OpenSolaris Team Roundtable Podcast on java.net.** Listen to our own James Liu speaking with Sun IHV support colleague Vicki Abe, J.D. Duncan from Toshiba, and Sun Java.net program manager Gary Thompson about device support on OpenSolaris 2009.06. The discussion took place at CommunityOne West and is posted on [[java.net>>http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2009/07/20/J1-2009-OpenSolaris.html]]. I clicked the "download the MP3" link and was able to play the interview with no problem on Rhythmbox Music Player on my Toshiba M10 running OpenSolaris 2009.06.
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57: [[[[image:http://blogs.sun.com/alta/resource/Marvin.jpg||alt="Marvin"width="300"height=""]]>>http://blogs.sun.com/alta/entry/arduino_night_ii]]
58: For Arduino fans:
59: * //Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects//; Tom Igoe; Make Books; September 28, 2007; ISBN: 978-0596510510
60: * //Hacking Roomba: ExtremeTech//; Tod E. Kurt; Wiley; November 20, 2006; ISBN: 978-0470072714
61: * [[Hacking Roomba>>http://hackingroomba.com/]] web site
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65: ===Recommended Reading
66: 
67: * [[OpenSolaris Information Center>>http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2009.06/]]
68: * [[CommunityOne OpenSolaris technical sessions and deep dives>>http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolaris/OpenSolaris+at+C1+West+-+Schedule]] - slide decks and videos of OpenSolaris presentations at CommunityOne West 2009
69: * All about [[OpenSolaris 2009.06>>http://www.opensolaris.com/use/OpenSolaris200906Booklet.pdf]] [PDF] is a 16-page booklet that has a comprehensive introduction to OpenSolaris, an installation guide using VirtualBox, a workshop-based tutorial to set up Web and Java development environments, and an interview with OpenSolaris product manager Glynn Foster.
70: * [[OPENSOLARIS NETWORK ADMINISTRATION For Administrators Familiar with Linux>>http://www.opensolaris.com/use/network_administration.pdf]] [PDF] is a 13-page booklet that helps you translate your Linux system administration skills to OpenSolaris.
71: * The [[Sun Learning eXchange>>http://slx.sun.com/]] (SLX) web site contains video and slide presentations on many topics. Click the Channels menu at the top of the page to select the [[OpenSolaris channel>>http://slx.sun.com/channel/1179273732]]. Use the Search field to specify a topic such as DTrace. See [[User Groups: Joys & Challenges>>https://slx.sun.com/1179275754]], [[Creating an OpenSolaris Project>>https://slx.sun.com/1179275096]], and many others on topics such as DTrace, ZFS, SourceJuicer.
72: * [[OpenSolaris Learning Center>>https://learning.sun.com/solc/opensolaris]] - log in with your Sun Online Account to take courses.
73: * //OpenSolaris Bible//; Nicholas A. Solter, Jerry Jelinek, David Miner; Wiley; February 3, 2009; ISBN: 978-0470385487
74: * //Pro OpenSolaris//; Harry Foxwell, Christine Tran; Apress; April 29, 2009; ISBN: 978-1-4302-1891-3
75: * //Solaris Application Programming//; Darryl Gove; Prentice Hall PTR; January 6, 2008; ISBN: 978-0138134556
76: * Solaris and OpenSolaris [[Software Developer Information Resources>>http://wikis.sun.com/display/SolarisDeveloper/Software+Developer+Information+Resources]]
77: * //Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture//; Jim Mauro, Richard McDougall; Prentice Hall PTR; 2 edition; July 20, 2006; ISBN: 978-0131482098
78: * [[//DTrace Quick Start Guide: Observing Native and Web Applications in Production//>>http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Community+Group+edu/nocost_resources/DTRACEGSG.pdf]] [PDF]
79: * //Solaris Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris//; Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro, Brendan Gregg; Prentice Hall PTR; July 30, 2006; ISBN: 978-0131568198
80: * [[Solaris Internals and Performance FAQ>>http://www.solarisinternals.com/]]
81: * //Solaris Systems Programming//; Rich Teer; Prentice Hall PTR; August 29, 2004; ISBN: 978-0768682236
82: * //Operating System Concepts//; Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne; Wiley; 8th edition; 2009; ISBN: 978-0470128725
83: * "[[A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernels>>Community Group advocacy.solaris-linux-freebsd]]", Max Bruning, October 14, 2005
84: * //Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials//; Solaris Engineers (including this group’s James Liu and Alta Elstad:); Prentice Hall PTR; November 30, 2009; ISBN 978-0137000098
85: * //Solaris 10 ZFS Essentials//; Scott Watanabe; Prentice Hall PTR; January 4, 2010; ISBN 978-0137000104
86: * //Solaris ZFS Administration Guide//; Sun Microsystems; Vervante; 2009; ISBN 978-0595352524
87: * //Solaris 10 Security Essentials//; Sun Microsystems Security Engineers; Prentice Hall PTR; November 23, 2009; ISBN 978-0137012336
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89: 
90: ===Past Meetings
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92: Archives of some meetings are at [[SVOSUG’s Videos>>http://www.ustream.tv/SVOSUG/videos]] on [[ustream.tv>>http://www.ustream.tv/svosug]].
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94: |=Meeting{{html}}&nbsp;{{/html}}Date|=Speaker, Topic, Presentation Materials
95: |Nov 19, 2009|Margaret brought her [[December 2009 issue of //Linux Journal//>>http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue/188]], which is focused on robots and embedded systems. Check out the [[Player Project software>>http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/]] for controlling robots - it runs on Solaris. Margaret plans to build a potato mesh and an [[electric motor>>http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Simple-Electric-Motor]]. John showed his steps for building ON - we will post this here soon. Paul from [[Vormetric>>http://www.vormetric.com/]] says Vormetric’s customers are asking for their products on Solaris. He also said they are using zones in house. James McPherson joined us from Australia. He had worked on the [[DDRdrive>>http://www.ddrdrive.com]] Solaris driver. Chris George was there again from DDRdrive and gave us an update on the driver status. Garrett D’Amore is now working on the driver. It is working in a demonstration capacity, not quite ready to advertise and ship. Garrett invites any interested parties to help with testing. [[Garrett’s blog>>http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2009/11/nice-zil-device.html]] and [[driver source code>>http://cr.opensolaris.org/~gdamore/ddrdrive/]].
96: |Oct 22, 2009|John Totah discussed cybersecurity. John talked about the history of cybersecurity issues ([[Morris Worm>>http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/103008-morris-worm.html]], 1988, for exmaple), and what the [[Obama administration is doing>>http://csis.org/program/commission-cybersecurity-44th-presidency]] today. John discussed that finer grained control of security policy leads to greater security, high reliability and availability lead to greater security, high software quality and lower bug rates lead to greater security. John mentioned the top 10 recommendations for achieving greater security from //[[Software Security: Building Security In>>http://www.swsec.com/]]// by Gary McGraw.
97: |Sep 24, 2009|Alan Coopersmith led an informal chat about OpenSolaris desktop changes and other questions about OpenSolaris development. Alan is the tech lead for the X Window System Consolidation in Solaris and OpenSolaris. He led the project to migrate Solaris from Sun’s proprietary Xsun server to the Xorg open source server and integrate the latest X11R7 versions of the X.Org community code base into Solaris. He also contributes on Sun’s behalf to the X.Org community project, including serving as the community’s release manager for X11R6.9. He has been a long-time member of the Solaris Desktop C-Team, served on LSARC (the Layered Software ARC) for several years, just finished two terms as a member of the OpenSolaris Governing Board, and is now a member of the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors. For those of you who follow OpenSolaris.org and X.org development lists, you already know that Alan is a very active contributor and replies on a wide range of topics. [[Alan’s blog>>http://blogs.sun.com/alanc/]] also includes a wealth of great information. Larry won the Sun Spot kit and promised to do something interesting with the kit and report back to our UG. Last but certainly not least, Christopher George of [[DDRdrive>>http://www.ddrdrive.com/]] thrilled us with his extremely fast storage device. If you can help with the driver for it, **//let us know!//**
98: |Jul 23, 2009|"[[Building Wacky Contraptions with OpenSolaris>>http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/10457]]" OSCON BOF
99: [[BOF slides>>attach:User Group svosug@OSCON-SVOSUG-BOF.pdf]] [PDF]
100: |Jun 25, 2009|John: I have an interesting application of the new OpenSolaris [[Crossbow technology>>Project crossbow.WebHome]] that I’d like to share with our UG, and hope that we can use it as an example of future UG activities that we can work on together. I also plan to bring the mysterious Twitter Cube (top right) and share what was going on at C1/J1.
101: |May 28, 2009|James Liu showed his new camera on his Acer Aspire. John Weeks showed his radar application: "I have an ultrasonic sensor mounted on a servo that’s connected to an Arduino. On the laptop side, I’m using [[Processing language>>http://www.processing.org]] that I ported over to OpenSolaris to control the position the servo and read the distance from the ultrasonic sensor and display it in the form of a radar screen. Processing on the laptop is communicating with the Arduino through a USB/serial cable using a new FTDI OpenSolaris driver (available in build 113)."
102: [[laptop desktop showing radar app running>>attach:User Group svosug.files@radardesktop.png]] [PNG]
103: [[laptop desktop and radar sensor>>attach:User Group svosug.files@DSC03514.jpg]] [JPG]
104: [[radar sensor>>attach:User Group svosug.files@DSC03518.jpg]] [JPG]
105: |Apr 23, 2009|James Liu showed off his new Acer Aspire.
106: [[Acer Aspire One AOA-150 Netbook Dual Boot with Solaris>>http://blogs.sun.com/PotstickerGuru/entry/acer_aspire_one_aoa_150]]
107: |[[Dec 18, 2009>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/entry/reminder_svosug_dec_meeting_tonight]]|Holiday pot luck
108: |[[Nov 18, 2009>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/entry/svosug_november_meeting_will_move]]|Installfest - latest release
109: [[Have you tried x86 Fast Reboot?>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/entry/have_you_tried_x86_fast]]
110: |[[Oct 23, 2008>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/entry/svosug_10_23_arduino_night]]|Arduino night
111: Also:[[Solaris running on Intel Atom D945GCLF mini ITX>>http://blogs.sun.com/PotstickerGuru/entry/solaris_running_on_intel_atom]]
112: |[[Sep 25, 2008>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/entry/stephen_smalley_to_speak_at]]|FMAC - Stephen Smalley
113: [[Raising the Bar in OS Security: SELinux and OpenSolaris FMAC>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/resource/smalley_09_25_2008.pdf]] [PDF]
114: [[ustream video>>http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/740438]]
115: |[[May 2008>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/]]|Solaris Application Programming
116: |[[Apr 2008>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/]]|Project Nitro
117: |[[ Mar 2008>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/]]|Introduction to FMAC [[[PDF]>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/resource/FMAC_intro.pdf]]
118: |[[ Feb 2008>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/]]|Virtualization Update
119: |[[ Jan 2008>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/]]|Project Indiana Update
120: |[[ Dec 2007>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/]]|Holiday Celebration
121: |[[ Nov 2007>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/]]|Multilevel Web Services w/Trusted Extensions
122: |[[ Oct 2007>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/]]|OSS Integration into OpenSolaris [[[ODP]>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/resource/svosug-oss-1007.odp]]
123: |[[ Sep 2007>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/]]|[[Kernel TCP/IP Evolution>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/resource/future-stack-svosug.pdf]] [PDF]
124: [[ATS Tool>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/resource/ats-svosug.pdf]] [PDF]
125: |[[Aug 2007>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/]]|Desktop Update by Alan Coopersmith and Stuart Kreitman [[[PDF]>>http://blogs.sun.com/alanc/resource/svosug_august.pdf]]
126: |[[Jul 26, 2007>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/]]|OpenSolaris scheduling and processor management [[[PDF]>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/resource/cpu_sched_svosug.pdf]]
127: |Jun 2007|Gone Fishin’, Summer Vacation for June. See you in July
128: |[[May 24, 2007>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/]]|Ian Murdock presents //Project Indiana//
129: |[[Apr 26, 2007>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/]]|Brendan Gregg presents // [[DTrace Intro & Update>>Community Group dtrace.WebHome]] //
130: |[[Mar 22, 2007>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/]]|John Beck presents //[[Network Auto-Magic>>Project nwam.WebHome]]//
131: |[[Feb 22, 2007>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/]]|Carl Hensler presents //InfiniBand// [[[ODP]>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/resource/ib-at-sun.22.02.07.odp]]
132: |[[Jan 25, 2006>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/]]|Ben Rockwood presents //Real World OpenSolaris// [[[PDF]>>http://www.cuddletech.com/RealWorld-OpenSolaris.pdf]]
133: |[[Dec 21, 2006>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/entry/svosug_this_thursday_holiday_installfest]]|Holiday Installfest!
134: |[[Nov 30, 2006>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/entry/svosug_-_this_thursday%2C_nov.]]|David Brown and Randy Fishell present //Power Management in OpenSolaris// [[[SXI]>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/resource/SVOSUGpm.sxi]]
135: |[[Oct 26, 2006>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/entry/svosug_thur_10_26_ip]]|Erik Nordmark presents //[[IP Instances>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/entry/svosug_tonight_thur_10_26]]//, innovating VLANs and Solaris Containers
136: |[[Sep 28, 2006>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/entry/this_thurs_sept_28th_silicon]]|Glenn Faden presents //OpenSolaris and trusted extentions// [[[PDF]>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/resource/rdt-tech-v2.pdf]]
137: |[[Aug 24, 2006>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/entry/svosug_tonight_august_24_sunay]]|Sunay Tripathi presents //Crossbow// [[[PDF]>>http://blogs.sun.com/aland/resource/crossbow.pdf]]
138: |[[Jul 25, 2006>>http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/aland?entry=svosug_july_25_tues_meeting]]|Tim Marsland presents //The Zen of Xen//
139: Also: Special guests Jim Mauro and Richard McDougall!
140: |[[Jun 22, 2006>>http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/aland?entry=postgres_coming_to_the_next]]|Josh Berkus will speak on Postgres & Solaris/OpenSolaris
141: |[[May 16, 2006>>http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/aland?entry=svosug_may_meeting_call_to]]|One Year Anniversary @ JavaOne
142: |[[Apr 27, 2006>>http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/aland?entry=svosug_meeting_next_thurs_04]]|Bart Smaalders and Phil Harman present //Solaris/OpenSolaris Performance//
143: Also: Steve Lau discusses Source Code Management
144: |[[Mar 23, 2006>>http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/aland?entry=svosug_what_is_solaris_nevada]]|Dan Price presents //What is Solaris Nevada?//
145: |[[Feb 23, 2006>>http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/aland?entry=svosug_sata_frameworks_lg_update]]|Presenting //SATA Frameworks//
146: Also: Update from the //Looking Glass// team
147: |[[Jan 26, 2006>>http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/aland?entry=svosug_meeting_thursday_jan_26]]|Max Bruning presents //An Overview of Device Drivers on Solaris//
148: |[[Dec 20, 2005>>http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/aland?entry=svosug_tues_dec_20th_brandz]]|Nils Nieuwejaar presents //BrandZ//
149: Also: Annual Open Pot Luck!
150: |[[Nov 22, 2005>>http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/aland?entry=reminder_svosug_tues_nov_22nd]]|Jeff Bonwick presents //ZFS: The last word in filesystems// [[[AVI]>>http://www.genunix.org/osug/video/OSUG-Nov.avi]]
151: |[[Oct 25, 2005>>http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/aland?entry=svosug_ip_filter_real_networks]]|Michael Lim presents //IP Filter//
152: Also: Scott Nelson discusses Solaris and Real/Helix
153: |[[Sep 27, 2005>>http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/aland?entry=svosug_sept_27th_meeting_menlo]]|Dana Meyers and Randy Fishel present //Power Management and the Solaris ACPI subsystem//
154: Also: Bart Smaalders and Phil Harman present //libMicro//
155: |Aug 30, 2005|David Comay presents //Zones// [[[AVI]>>http://www.genunix.org/osug/video/OSUG-Aug.avi]]
156: |Jul 26, 2005|Mike Shapiro presents //FMA// [[[AVI]>>http://www.genunix.org/osug/video/OSUG-July.avi]]
157: |Jun 28, 2005|Keith Wesolowski and Mike Kupfer present //Building OpenSolaris// [[[AVI]>>http://www.genunix.org/osug/video/OSUG-June.avi]]
158: |May 31, 2005|Darren Moffat presents //Security// Also, Project Looking Glass [[[AVI]>>http://www.genunix.org/osug/video/OpenSolaris-May05.avi]]
159: |Apr 26, 2005|Liane Praza presents //SMF//. Also, Jan Setje-Eilers presents //NewBoot//. [[[AVI]>>http://www.genunix.org/osug/video/OSUG-Apr2005.avi]]
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