Reminder, the FROSUG meeting on BrandZ is this coming Thursday, February 23.
- Sam On Feb 6, 2006, at 12:11 PM, Sam Falkner wrote: > 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 >
