The previous meeting of FROSUG involving ZFS was a great success. Thank you to all who attended!
We would like to invite you to the next FROSUG meeting, which will feature Bill Kucharski presenting BrandZ. BrandZ is a framework that extends the Solaris Zones infrastructure (see http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/) to create Branded Zones, which are zones that contain non-native operating environments. The term "non-native" is intentionally vague, as the infrastructure allows for the creation of a wide range of operating environments. Each operating environment is provided by a brand that plugs into the BrandZ framework. A brand may be as simple as an environment with the standard Solaris utilities replaced by their GNU equivalents, or as complex as a complete Linux userspace. Read more about BrandZ at their community page: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/ Bill Kucharski has been working at Sun Microsystems since 2000. He has worked in the UNIX kernel for over 17 years for companies like Amdahl, Solbourne and Bell Labs, mostly in the areas of VM and boot. Prior to BrandZ, he was a core member of the team that ported Solaris to amd64 and before that was responsible for bringing up the Solaris kernel on UltraSPARC V. He's also currently an OpenSolaris community leader for both BrandZ and the effort to port Solaris to PowerPC. Here are details about the meeting: Where: Sun Broomfield campus, Conference Center #1 & #2 / Bldg #1 Address: 500 Eldorado Blvd. Broomfield, CO 80021 Date: Thursday, February 23, 2006 Agenda: 6:15pm - 6:30pm: Once again, we will be providing pizza and soft drinks! 6:30pm - 8:30pm: BrandZ Please RSVP by sending your first and last name to frosug-rsvp(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org by February 22nd. This will help us know how much food to get and allow us to make badges in advance. - Sam
