Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group
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Participate in the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group (SVOSUG) discussion forum at the Jive forum or the Mailman interface. To subscribe, see "Subscribing to ug-svosug" on the mailman page or send an empty email to ug-svosug dash subscribe at opensolaris dot org MeetingsNext meeting: Thursday, December 17? 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. Directions to the Santa Clara Campus:
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User Groups: Joys & Challenges A Conversation with John Weeks & Rafael Vanoni is a video in which John and Rafael (from the San Francisco user group) discuss OpenSolaris user group topics such as membership and meeting activities.
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. 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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Past Meetings
Archives of some meetings are at SVOSUG's Videos on ustream.tv.
| Meeting Date | Speaker, Topic, Presentation Materials |
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| Nov 19, 2009 | Margaret brought her December 2009 issue of Linux Journal, which is focused on robots and embedded systems. Check out the Player Project software for controlling robots - it runs on Solaris. Margaret plans to build a potato mesh and an electric motor. John showed his steps for building ON - we will post this here soon. Paul from Vormetric 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 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 and driver source code. |
| Oct 22, 2009 | John Totah discussed cybersecurity. John talked about the history of cybersecurity issues (Morris Worm, 1988, for exmaple), and what the Obama administration is doing 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 by Gary McGraw. |
| 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 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 thrilled us with his extremely fast storage device. If you can help with the driver for it, let us know! |
| Jul 23, 2009 | "Building Wacky Contraptions with OpenSolaris" OSCON BOF BOF slides [PDF] |
| Jun 25, 2009 | John: I have an interesting application of the new OpenSolaris Crossbow technology 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. |
| 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 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)." laptop desktop showing radar app running [PNG] laptop desktop and radar sensor [JPG] radar sensor [JPG] |
| Apr 23, 2009 | James Liu showed off his new Acer Aspire. Acer Aspire One AOA-150 Netbook Dual Boot with Solaris |
| Dec 18, 2009 | Holiday pot luck |
| Nov 18, 2009 | Installfest - latest release Have you tried x86 Fast Reboot? |
| Oct 23, 2008 | Arduino night Also:Solaris running on Intel Atom D945GCLF mini ITX |
| Sep 25, 2008 | FMAC - Stephen Smalley Raising the Bar in OS Security: SELinux and OpenSolaris FMAC [PDF] ustream video |
| May 2008 | Solaris Application Programming |
| Apr 2008 | Project Nitro |
| Mar 2008 | Introduction to FMAC [PDF] |
| Feb 2008 | Virtualization Update |
| Jan 2008 | Project Indiana Update |
| Dec 2007 | Holiday Celebration |
| Nov 2007 | Multilevel Web Services w/Trusted Extensions |
| Oct 2007 | OSS Integration into OpenSolaris [ODP] |
| Sep 2007 | Kernel TCP/IP Evolution [PDF] ATS Tool [PDF] |
| Aug 2007 | Desktop Update by Alan Coopersmith and Stuart Kreitman [PDF] |
| Jul 26, 2007 | OpenSolaris scheduling and processor management [PDF] |
| Jun 2007 | Gone Fishin', Summer Vacation for June. See you in July |
| May 24, 2007 | Ian Murdock presents Project Indiana |
| Apr 26, 2007 | Brendan Gregg presents DTrace Intro & Update |
| Mar 22, 2007 | John Beck presents Network Auto-Magic |
| Feb 22, 2007 | Carl Hensler presents InfiniBand [ODP] |
| Jan 25, 2006 | Ben Rockwood presents Real World OpenSolaris [PDF] |
| Dec 21, 2006 | Holiday Installfest! |
| Nov 30, 2006 | David Brown and Randy Fishell present Power Management in OpenSolaris [SXI] |
| Oct 26, 2006 | Erik Nordmark presents IP Instances, innovating VLANs and Solaris Containers |
| Sep 28, 2006 | Glenn Faden presents OpenSolaris and trusted extentions [PDF] |
| Aug 24, 2006 | Sunay Tripathi presents Crossbow [PDF] |
| Jul 25, 2006 | Tim Marsland presents The Zen of Xen Also: Special guests Jim Mauro and Richard McDougall! |
| Jun 22, 2006 | Josh Berkus will speak on Postgres & Solaris/OpenSolaris |
| May 16, 2006 | One Year Anniversary @ JavaOne |
| Apr 27, 2006 | Bart Smaalders and Phil Harman present Solaris/OpenSolaris Performance Also: Steve Lau discusses Source Code Management |
| Mar 23, 2006 | Dan Price presents What is Solaris Nevada? |
| Feb 23, 2006 | Presenting SATA Frameworks Also: Update from the Looking Glass team |
| Jan 26, 2006 | Max Bruning presents An Overview of Device Drivers on Solaris |
| Dec 20, 2005 | Nils Nieuwejaar presents BrandZ Also: Annual Open Pot Luck! |
| Nov 22, 2005 | Jeff Bonwick presents ZFS: The last word in filesystems [AVI] |
| Oct 25, 2005 | Michael Lim presents IP Filter Also: Scott Nelson discusses Solaris and Real/Helix |
| Sep 27, 2005 | Dana Meyers and Randy Fishel present Power Management and the Solaris ACPI subsystem Also: Bart Smaalders and Phil Harman present libMicro |
| Aug 30, 2005 | David Comay presents Zones [AVI] |
| Jul 26, 2005 | Mike Shapiro presents FMA [AVI] |
| Jun 28, 2005 | Keith Wesolowski and Mike Kupfer present Building OpenSolaris [AVI] |
| May 31, 2005 | Darren Moffat presents Security Also, Project Looking Glass [AVI] |
| Apr 26, 2005 | Liane Praza presents SMF. Also, Jan Setje-Eilers presents NewBoot. [AVI] |
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