OpenSolaris
Tonight, at the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris Users Group will be welcoming Ian Murdock to clear up misconceptions and bring us all up to date on Project Indiana. THIS IS A MUST ATTEND EVENT! Project Indiana is going to change the face of the Solaris world... but maybe not the way you think. Don't listen to the second hand accounts or conjecture, come tonight and find out first hand. If you can not attend use the call in number. ...
JavaOne has come and gone... yet again. I'll be honest, JavaOne really is the best show of the year. Its big, exciting, and frantic, just what a great show should be. So much is going on your constantly trying to figure out how you can get more in. Sadly I didn't get to attend any JavaOne session, just a couple of the CommunityOne sessions. Here's a hint: The week was a busy one for me. I spent most of my time in the Pavilion at ...
I'm finally back from my first two days at JavaOne. The first day, day zero, since all the official JavaOne stuff really starts in full swing on Tuesday (today), was a really busy day. All at the same time JavaOne sessions, Startup Camp and CommunityOne were happening. Most of the Joyent crew including Joyuer's Mark Mayo and Derek Crudgington, were at StartupCamp while I was over at CommunityOne. CommunityOne itself was a real challenge ...
The schedule is up for the CommunityOne Day at JavaOne. CommunityOne will run all day on Monday May 7th. I'll be speaking at 11:05am as the first session in the OpenSolaris Track: Introduction to the OpenSolaris Operating System. Given the audience and the short time span this will be a high-level overview of OpenSolaris including our history, our community, our governance model, and a quick run through of what is what (SX:DE vs SX:CE vs ...
I was digging around Sun's Download site looking for some goodies (SunMC) when I came across an exciting gem that I was unaware of: Solaris Express, Developer Edition Appliance for the Parallels Virtual Machine 1.0! If you've wanted Solaris in Parallel's for Windows or OSX and had problems, struggle no longer! The work is done for you, just download (made easy with Sun's Download Manager and Java Webstart, just check all the parts for OSX ...
Brendan Gregg, creator of the DTrace Toolkit and author of the book that I know everyone has on your desk (you DO have a copy on your desk right?) Solaris(TM) Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris, is speaking at the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris Users Group tonight! Come by Santa Clara SCA03 tonight on the Agnews site for a great talk on DTrace. Brendan, like his colleges Bryan Cantrill, Mike ...
I'm at the MySQL Users Conference today. Hangin' out with the likes of Mikael Ronstrom and Monty. I'm in the Sun booth representing OpenSolaris and talking with all types of developers, CTO's, and users many of which are still unaware that Solaris is open! In the booth we're showing off DTrace probes in MySQL, which is awesome except for the fact that Sun legal won't give the DTrace patch to MySQL! Monty said with absolute sincerity and ...
On March 19th, Ian Murdock, father of Debian Linux, joined Sun as "Chief OS Platform Strategist". He debuted in style, announcing himself in true community fashion on the OS-Discuss list and blogging about it. I'll be honest... I was upset and confused. Why of all people, Ian Murdock? Sun tried the Linux strategy thing and it was a failure, unless you count the renewed commitment to Solaris following the flop. Sun has since toned down its ...
Joyent's system team continues to grow as we continue our quest to provide our customers with the best solutions using the best technology available. In January Mark Mayo, of both Solaris and NetApp fame, came on board, and now we're pleased to welcome Derek Crudgington, of Solaris fame, to the family. Anyone working with Solaris will have stumbled across Derek's blog more than once.. at Joyent we ran across it so often we knew that he was ...
Its that time of year, conference season is open. As usual I'll do my best to be at any major Bay Area tech expo's where OpenSolaris can peek in its head. So far on the lineup is JavaOne running May 8-11 at Moscone, the MySQL Conference & Expo running April 23-26 in Santa Clara, and likely but as of yet unconfirmed LinuxWorld SF running Aug 6-9 at Moscone. I encourage everyone to come out for JavaOne. Last year I had a real blast at ...