[osol-discuss] What's Going on at JavaOne 2007?

nity is invited to drop by and play. If you'd like to sign up for a 2-hour slot to meet and greet, contact Laura Ramsey and we'll make it happen. We have 2 pavilion / general session passes for folks doing "booth duty"...so let me know if you want on that schedule! The Open

Re: [osol-discuss] Scaling the open walls.

Stephen Lau wrote: Ghee Teo wrote: Stephen Lau wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:48:02AM -0500, dan sinclair wrote: intimidating. I started out following some of the lists, dropped off, and just came back in the last week or so (send in my first request-sponser item this morning).

[osol-discuss] 1/31 NEOSUG Inaugural Meeting--Burlington MA

Are You Ready? The Inaugral meeting of the NEOSUG (New England Opensolaris User Group) will be held on January 31, 2007 from 5:30-8:00 pm at the Sun Microsystems campus in Burlington MA. The agenda for the evening will include an introduction to the OpenSolaris project, and a technical upd

[osol-discuss] 1/31 Inaugural Meeting of NEOSUG

Are You Ready? The Inaugural meeting of the NEOSUG (New England Opensolaris User Group) will be held on January 31, 2007 from 5:30-8:00 pm at the Sun Microsystems campus in Burlington MA. (Map courtesy of Google Maps)

[osol-discuss] 1/31 Inaugural Meeting of NEOSUG

Are You Ready? The Inaugural meeting of the NEOSUG (New England Opensolaris User Group) will be held on January 31, 2007 from 5:30-8:00 pm at the Sun Microsystems campus in Burlington MA. (Map courtesy of Google Maps)

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] OpenSolaris Day at Tech Days

Jim! That would be great. We have a Pod at these events too so we'd like to involve any community members to participate as well! LKR Jim Grisanzio wrote: I'm going to try to attend some of these Asian dates. Checking on travel issues now, so I'll get back to you. Jim Teresa Giacomini w

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [website-discuss] Home page graphic redesign proposal

Somebody heard me! Thank you Venky! LKR Venky wrote: Or, a tagcloud. That would be visually appealing, educational, community driven. Okay, okay! +1 for the tagcloud! :) Venky. ___ opensolaris-mktg mailing list [EMAIL PROTECT

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [website-discuss] Home page graphic redesign proposal

Or, a tagcloud. That would be visually appealing, educational, community driven. LKR Dennis Clarke wrote: On Wed 19 Jul 2006 at 04:22PM, Sara Dornsife wrote: If *Moazam* will allow us to, we can create a poll on Unixville so that people can vote for their favorite de

[osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Home page graphic redesign proposal

Dan Price wrote: On Wed 19 Jul 2006 at 06:02PM, Sara Dornsife wrote: Do you have another suggestion for how to choose? How about we ask the team that did the last two graphics (roughly: Chandan, me, Derek and maybe a person or two I missed) to select the next one from th

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [website-discuss] Home page graphic redesign proposal

Dan Price wrote: On Wed 19 Jul 2006 at 04:22PM, Sara Dornsife wrote: If *Moazam* will allow us to, we can create a poll on Unixville so that people can vote for their favorite design. The design with the most votes will go live on or about Aug 11th-ish and will stay up there for

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Home page graphic redesign proposal

About 2 hours before this message, I suggested a graphic-- A tag cloud that is populated with community interest. It's not hard to do. See: http://del.icio.us/help/tagrolls LKR Sara Dornsife wrote: The anniversary graphic has been up for over a month now. It is time to change that graphi

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: [Fwd: 10 GbE on T2000 running Ubuntu]]

--- Begin Message --- Title: E-mail Signature Sun 2005 Interesting post on the Ubuntu forums... people from Intel actually running Ubuntu linux on our T2000 machines. The world is taking an interesting turn! Gilles. Original Message Subject: 10 GbE on

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Anniversary/Solaris Press Coverage Report

Compliments of Liza Curran, Our PR manager from Sun Microsystems... Hi all: Below please find the Solaris/OpenSolaris wrap-up report that includes a summary of the dinner on Monday, 6/19 i

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: Media Coverage: IT Jungle]

Lovely Article --thanks to Sun PR team! LKR --- Begin Message --- Hi all: Yesterday Chris Ratcliffe and Stephen Harpster met with Timothy Prickett-Morgan of IT Jungle on the record, to discuss the OpenSolaris one-year anniversary. Below please find the neutral to positive story as a resul

[osol-discuss] PR coverage..Happy Birthday OpenSolaris

this just in from Sun's PR team! LKR Happy Birthday OpenSolaris By Sean Michael Kerner Internetnews June 14, 2006 http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3613241 It was one year ago today that Sun officially opened the doors to its OpenSolaris open source operating system effort. A

Re: [osol-discuss] Happy Birthday OpenSolaris

Woo hoo! LKR Dennis Clarke wrote: I have to head off to a meeting at the Sun Canada offices. I wanted to put some sort of small thing on the Blastwave site .. something subtle .. http://www.blastwave.org/ :-) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailin

Re: [osol-discuss] Anniversary meet up for Bay Area locals?

Hey Guys in Burlington (Dave Miner et al...) How about we step out too? Maybe we can hit the Dandelion Green (they'll have some world cup going but let's not let that ruin the good time!) LKR Karyn Ritter wrote: I'm wondering if people in the Bay Area want together for drinks on the annive

Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] You are Invited! Birthday Blog Party on June 14th!

+1 Patrick Finch wrote: Not preempting Laura or Sara, I'd offer that posting a blurb on your company's website would be excellent (Sun.com will be doing something similar), and you could possibly embelish it with a button: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/buttons/ Patrick Dan Price

Re: [osol-discuss] Patricipation in the .org pavilion at Linuxworld SF

You guys going to burn CDs in the booth? ;) LOL! LKR Ben Rockwood wrote: Sounds good. I'll take what we've got. ;) Thanks for offering the ISO Steve. ;) benr. Sara Dornsife wrote: I have ordered both CDs and DVDs, so you can use which ever is appropriate. Sara Teresa Giacomini wrote:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86

Jim Grisanzio wrote: Joerg and Thomas are correct to point out the university issue, but things will turn around. Inside Sun, this is being taken seriously. I would like to make a suggestion, and task you specifically to take that s

Re: [osol-discuss] Patricipation in the .org pavilion at Linuxworld SF

This is GREAT news Teresa! Do we know who some of the other players in the pavillion will be? LKR Teresa Giacomini wrote: Hi folks, The OpenSolaris community has been invited to participate in the .org pavilion at Linuxworld San Francisco. Anyone out there interested in taking the lea

[osol-discuss] Congratulation OpenSolaris--CODIE AWARD WINNER for Best Open Source Solution!

I'm thrilled to tell the community that we were awarded the SIIA Codie Award for Best Open Source software. Many folks worked late into the evenings during Christmas break to meet with the reporter and reviews editors. Special thanks to Stephen Lau, Karyn Ritter and Stephen Harpster for being

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris at JavaOne2006--Meet You In SF!

The OpenSolaris community has alot of activity going at the JavaOne2006 Conference--Between participating in news announcements, demonstrating in the booth, gathering with the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group, and sponsoring the Freedom Toaster event, this will be a big week for us. Co

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: OpenSolaris attacked by Novell]

This is amazing on *several* levels: 1--We're on the radar ...but why? That's what's so amazing. 2--Ron H. is mistaken--he thinks OpenSolaris is a linux-based community...another amazing thing--he didn't even LOOK at the community, before he proclaimed it a "fork" TALK ABOUT A LOW HANGING P

Re: [osol-discuss] W/ATTACHMENT-- OpenSolaris Featured in Linux Format Magazine--with BeliniX DVD!

They don't have it online yet. (strange, tho it is...) and so I'm looking at the online publishing rights. I'll negotiate Blastwave as one of the sites in the bid. BRB, LKR Dennis Clarke wrote: Laura Ramsey wrote: This just in from Chhandomay--t

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Featured in Linux Format Magazine--with BeliniX DVD!

Many people contributed to the success of this piece. Many thanks go to Laura Ramsey for pulling this all together under a very tight deadline, and to Moinak Ghosh, Dennis Clarke, and Eric Boutlier for contributions to the DVD. Thanks Chhandomay ___ op

[osol-discuss] Great Posting from Stephen O'Grady

"I think it's safe to say that the OpenSolaris community is thriving. It may not rival the size of the Linux community, but it's an entity in its own right." Stephen O'Grady RedMonk Great posting from RedMonk...and everyone in the OpenSolaris community should feel GREAT about this! http:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenBSD donation request

Lars: No offense intended and so no offense taken! Contact Simon Phipps, Sun's Chief Open Source Officer. He is the most direct connection into Sun's open source efforts! Cheers, LKR Lars C wrote: Please let me apologize for coming across as an intruder soliciting. It was not my intention

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Hardware donations [OpenSolaris.org page]?

Wes, this is awesome. I guess there would be some lightweight decision process for who would get the donated system...how do other communities handle that? LKR Wes Williams wrote: Soon I will likely have a Sun workstation I'd be willing to donate to an OpenSolaris developer or contributo

Re: [osol-discuss] Replacement name for Band of Brothers

Yeah--totally right. Besides, I liked OZONE after I posted my reply! LKR Sean Sprague wrote: LKR! You'll despise me for this, but this does not rock my boat; and I have just worked out why... OpenSolaris Collective Force 1 This sounds just like a Sun Microsystems product, and not some

Re: [osol-discuss] Replacement name for Band of Brothers

OpenSolaris Collective Force 1 (hopefully with 2,3,4,...etc. coming in the future. It is not limited by number of items on the DVD It can apply to distros, or later apps, drivers or whatever we want to have on there. LKR Sean Sprague wrote: Hello all, As Dennis suggested, "Band of Brothe

Re: [osol-discuss] Band of Brothers DVD--Update

+1 Band of Brothers was really just a project name...not the real thing. LKR Dennis Clarke wrote: On 3/16/06, Sean Sprague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: All three OpenSolaris Distro's on one DVD along with everything else that one would want.

Re: [osol-discuss] Band of Brothers DVD--Update

LOL--yes, not associated with the TV show. (which was great.) It is a DVD of Bellinix, Schillix and Nexenta distros of OpenSolaris. Stay tuned. Dennis Clarke is working on locking in the ISO...and it will be coming to a blastwave download center near you! ;) LKR Jens Siebert wrote: Laura

Re: [osol-discuss] Band of Brothers DVD--Update

the DVD would be ready? I'm heading down to the FISL conference in April, and I'd love to burn a whole bunch of these DVDs and bring them with me. cheers, steve Dennis Clarke wrote: On 3/16/06, Laura Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dennis: got an update on the Band

[osol-discuss] Band of Brothers DVD--Update

Dennis: got an update on the Band of Brothers DVD? Once you have the ISO up on Blastwave, and the installation guide is set, we can start the production phase of the project: 1--Sara can start whipping up the DVD cover art in inserts... 2--We can figure out best timing for the first run (and

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: OpenSolaris and Linux Format]

The Linix Format DVD is all finalized. According to the publication, BelliniX will be included on a DVD with Gentoo 2006 and SimplyMEPIS3.4-3. I've asked for copies of the publication to be sent our way so we can see how it all presented. The publication also has a feature article about OpenS

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

I totally agree--there are many good "messages" that come from producing a multiboot DVD--and maybe it's something we do periodically in addition to sep. Distros, or even as Glynn suggested tutorial and training modules. Physical media is a beautiful thing once in a while to complement the o

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

KR Erast Benson wrote: btw, Laura, what is the deadline for this "brothers" DVD? And thanks for doing this! On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 19:54 -0500, Laura Ramsey wrote: +1 Question: Can we get an estimate of how big that would be? Need to find out about space on DVD, constraints, et

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

+1 Question: Can we get an estimate of how big that would be? Need to find out about space on DVD, constraints, etc. Anyone got a SWAG?  And would we have some room to include install notes from Dennis Clarke... LKR Erast Benson wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 01:44 +0530, Moinak Ghosh wro

[osol-discuss] Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

We have occasional opportunities to offer promotional versions of either OpenSolaris builds or an OpenSolaris-based distributions for developer publications and conferences. Having a "suitcase" of DVDs of OpenSolaris based distributions is a fun thing for conferences, birthday gifts, annivers

Re: [osol-discuss] Extending the reach of blogs posts

Cross posting to opensolaris marketing alias... Eric: should we "federate friends" so we can view eachother's other tags as well? That might be another cool way to network content. Many people have different user names on digg than on opensolaris...so how could we publish that membership lis

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking an OpenSolaris Celeb

I LOVE this idea...and if you look on the wwosug page, (http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups) you see it's been suggested, and we piloted a call in October. The next meeting keeps sliding due to availability of speakers--but if we have any volunteers, lob your name in here and

[osol-discuss] Re: [ug-discuss] Put your location on Frapper Today!

Beta software, dude! I've lobbed 2 or 3 messages in to the contact support alias re: fixes not being saved. ;) LKR Dave Marquardt wrote: "Laura" == Laura Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Laura> http://www.frappr.com/opensolariswwosug# Laura> Check it out

[osol-discuss] Put your location on Frapper Today!

**Note: Cross posting to Opensolaris discuss alias...continue thread on [EMAIL PROTECTED] please** Hi everyone: You see here a link to the FRAPPR site--we've got the basics of a WWOSUG map set up...would love everyone to go and add in their locations. It's possible the admin settings ar

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris on Frappr

Totally! We have a map that was started up last october...Just a few user groups on there so far. Everyone! Start landing your locations! LKR Ruslan Valiyev wrote: Cool service :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] BrandZ in the News--

LOL! Bravo to both Dennis and Bryan--So True! the press doesn't have the luxury of time to write a story. So just provide access to complete information and extraordinary minds to collaborate the story...it's an imperfect model, but of they folks covering opensolaris...they know the industr

[osol-discuss] CONGRATULATIONS! OpenSolaris noted as a top 10 Moment in IT!

How Great is this! Congratulations OpenSolaris.org! 2005's top 10 moments in IT InfoWorld Cathleen Moore December 19, 2005 http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/12/19/51NNyearinreview_1.html ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@op

[osol-discuss] BrandZ in the News--

Cool Story here about the new BrandZ project with solid commentary from Nils and Ben Rockwood. http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/12/16/HNsunrlinux_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/12/16/HNsunrlinux_1.html Cheers, LKR ___

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: [ug-discuss] ATLOSUG kickoff exceed expectations]

Congratulations ATL-OSUG! LKR -- --- Begin Message --- Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group held its kickoff meeting last night to great success. I think we had a great initial meeting. We counted just over fifty folks in attendance, which far surpassed my expectation. We had some great s

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: Fwd: Studio 11/ WR Press Release is out!]

Great news! Sun Studio 11 performance records! Sun Studio 11, on the Solaris 10 Operating System, Delivers World  Record Performance Results on Sun Fire Servers Wednesday October 26, 8:00 am ET Sun Sets New Benchmark Record for SPECfp2000, Demonstrating  Optimized Power of the Sun Studio 1

[osol-discuss] Re: [ug-discuss] Creating a LatinOpenSolaris (LatinOS) Distribution

Cross-posting to the OpenSolaris discuss alias... LKR Pedro Gomez wrote: Hi, I have been thinking for a while on wether we (as in Venezuela or Latin America) encourage the development of an OpenSolaris-based distro. I saw a second distribution on OpenSolaris in the site news and the thou

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris User Group - Austin, TX?

Yo! Very cool. You have anyone in Boston/Atlanta areas? ;) LKR Alan DuBoff wrote: On Monday 10 October 2005 06:40 am, Dave Marquardt wrote: Sara, I'm glad to see this happening! After the first meeting, we have lots of engineers in Austin who work on Solaris who can be speaker

[osol-discuss] User Groups in NYC, Boston and Austin coming online!

Just a quick note--to any community members in these areas who'd like to link up-- Ready, Go: 1--sign up for the ug-discuss alias out on the user group community 2--Connect with Bill Rushmore for NYC, Laura Ramsey (acting) for Boston, and Sara Dornsife (acting) for Austin. Cheers!

[osol-discuss] CORRECTION-- WWOSUG Telecon at 9:00 Pacific--SKYPE INFO!

Sorry--quick correction --SKYPE users, please IM simon at simon.phipps. to avoid interrupting the call. Thanks! LKR Laura Ramsey wrote: We're all set for our WWOSUG telecon at 9:00 PM Pacific (30 mins away!) Come hear Hal Stern, CTO, Software and technologies a

[osol-discuss] REMINDER: WWOSUG Telecon at 9:00 Pacific--SKYPE INFO!

laris Group Marketing Manager and get all the news and information on OpenSolaris user Groups worldwide. **Note: Skype users, please dial in to simon.phipps** DATE: October 6, 2005-- TIME: 11:59 PM EDT (Confirmation 44956752) DIAL: 800-473-7795 (US)  or 816-650-0753 (Intl) CHAIRPERSON: Laura Ramsey

[osol-discuss] REMINDER: KICKOFF TELECON--OpenSolaris User Groups

resource page...all kinds of great stuff coming together...starting with user group buttons,  t-shirts     --Q&A Dial In Details: US/Euro DATE: October 6, 2005-- TIME:  3:00 PM EDT (Confirmation # 44956724) DIAL:  800-377-4273 (US)   or 816-650-0771 (I

[osol-discuss] Worldwide OpenSolaris User Group Call SET! 10/6

All members of the opensolaris community are welcome to join in on the WWOSUG telecon scheduled for 10/6. Check it out at:  http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=2608&tstart=0 LKR -- ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolar

[osol-discuss] Wonderful Contrarian Minds article about Bryan Cantrill

Here's the external URL--Thanks all for your patience and enjoy the article! LKR http://research.sun.com/minds/2005-0929/ A fun read... "[Bryan] refuses to believe hard problems can't be solved simply because no one else has been able to solve them yet," Sun CTO Greg Papadopoul

Re: [osol-discuss] Wonderful Contrarian Minds article about Bryan Cantrill

Yes! Stand by everyone! I'm getting the URL issue resolved. My bad!  Cheers, LKR ghee teo wrote: Hi, Great read, agreed here! But those who are outside SWAN cannot access this artcile! Laura Ramsey wrote: A fun read... "[Bryan] refuses to be

[osol-discuss] Wonderful Contrarian Minds article about Bryan Cantrill

A fun read... "[Bryan] refuses to believe hard problems can't be solved simply because no one else has been able to solve them yet," Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos says of Cantrill. "DTrace is a perfect example. Bryan and his teammates came up with an elegant solution to a seemingly intractable pr

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Couple of Links that Might Be Of Interest

+1 LKR Darren J Moffat wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:51, UNIX admin wrote: Whoever that guy is -- he's deluded into believeing GNU tools are the standard. You've gotta be kidding me! That guy actually thinks apt-get was the first great thing since sliced bread to implement on

[osol-discuss] Re: [ug-discuss] UG on the east coast

Hi Bill! This is great news! We're just starting to ping around for interest in a NE User group...might be a little too far for your connection...maybe a NY/PHIL connection would be better?  Let me know. We have an OS Ambassador in the NY office who could help build the membership as well! A

[osol-discuss] eWEEK review of Shillix...link for easy ref

Here you go! http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1854001,00.asp Not to put too much spin on it...(read my blog for spin...) it does seem to include constructive feedback... at the very least it warrants some responses to the story...as it will definitely generate a lot of readership and hop

Re: [osol-discuss] New England Calling

I sure hope so! I"m polling to see if we have any interest and I can "join up" with logistics, swag and a good opening act. ;) LKR Jim Grisanzio wrote: Laura Ramsey wrote: Hi! Do we have community members in the New England area who would like to get togeth

Re: [osol-discuss] New mailing list proposal

I like Simon's approach so we have some mechanism for making sure the announcements don't "overflow"...and a helping hand for Simon might be well advised since moderating this could conceivably grow to more than just 1 or 2 emails a day. (I'd volunteer.) For those announcements that are not p

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris workshops/conferences?

eakers and expertise) is also under consideration. Again, we want this to be as easy for the community to run as possible. :) LKR Jim Grisanzio wrote: Laura Ramsey wrote: Stay tuned Ryan! We're in the process of including OpenSolaris in just about every training vehicle we ca

[osol-discuss] New England Calling

Hi! Do we have community members in the New England area who would like to get together in September? We can meet at the Burlington Campus (just outside of Boston) and we could also line up a NYC meeting for Manhattan... Any interest? LKR -- __

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris workshops/conferences?

Stay tuned Ryan! We're in the process of including OpenSolaris in just about every training vehicle we can schedule into throughout Sun Microsystems, and we're coming to a town near you in either user groups or Sun hosted seminars. We're also working on a developer conference that is moving i

[osol-discuss] Sun kicksoff partnership with VM Ware...

Is this interesting? VMware Embraces Sun and Solaris x86 The Register, Ashlee Vance; August 11, 2005 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/11/vmware_sun_deal/ The piece notes that Sun matured a bit this week as an x86 server vendor by kicking off a broad partnership with VMware that will see