This month's FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on Thursday, January 25, 2007. Our presentations are, Solaris Training by Chris McDonald and OpenSolaris Zones by Jerry Jelinek. In addition, Jon Bowman will be giving an OpenSolaris Update - a short presentation about the latest happenings in OpenSolaris. We will also be doing an InstallFest. So, if you want help installing an OpenSolaris distribution, backup your laptop and bring it to the meeting!
About the presentations: The Solaris Training presentation will give an overview of the Sun Learning Connection (SLC) and discuss the online course offerings including courses on System Administration, N1, Containers (Zones), ZFS, DTrace and Security. In addition, it will discuss the ePractice Exams for Certification and the current training promotions. The OpenSolaris Zones presentation describes Zones and how they fit within the overall OpenSolaris virtualization strategy. The presentation includes an overview of Zones and discusses the various enhancements to zones that have been developed by the OpenSolaris Zones community. The presentations will be posted here prior to the meeting: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/frosug/ About our presenters: Chris McDonald is the Americas Field Lead for Sun Learning Services. Jerry Jelinek has been a software engineer for over 20 years and has worked at Sun Microsystems for over 15 years. At Sun he has participated in a variety of projects including system installation for the first Solaris 2.x releases, the technical lead for the team that created JumpStart, the System V print subsystem and various system management tools. In 1997 he joined a dot-com startup doing Java development before returning to Sun in 2000. Since returning he has worked on Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) and open sourcing Solaris. He is currently working on OpenSolaris Zones and resource management. Jerry has a BS in CS from Washington University in St. Louis and a MS in CS from the University of Colorado. ----- Meeting Details: When: Thursday, January 25, 2007 Times: 6:15pm - 6:30pm: Pizza 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Solaris Training (Chris McDonald) 7:00pm - 8:30pm: OpenSolaris Zones (Jerry Jelinek) Where: Sun Broomfield Campus Building 1 - Conference Center 500 Eldorado Blvd. Broomfield, CO 80021 Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the beginning of the meeting. Please RSVP to frosug-rsvp(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org in order to help us plan for food and setup access to the Sun campus. We hope to see you there! Thanks, FROSUG +++ Future Meeting Plans: February 22, 2007: Lori Alt presents "ZFS Boot/GRUB" March: Doug McCallum presents "sharemgr" This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
