Dear BOSUG Member, I am pleased to invite you to ACM Bangalore chapter monthly tech talk with
Moinak Ghosh. Solaris Sustaining Engineering team, Sun Microsystems, Bangalore. Topic: A tour of the OpenSolaris Operating Environment. On Thursday, 4th October, 2007 Time: 18:15 - 19:45 hours. (High Tea included). Venue: Computer Society of India, Bangalore Chapter, NO.201, IInd Floor, MBC Complex, Infantry Road, Bangalore-560001. Phone: 22860461/22862215. Talk Abstract: The OpenSolaris Operating Environment is the only mainstream Unix that is still popular today and has evolved into a modern OS that incorporates features coming out of current development in Operating Systems. This talks aims to cover the following topics: * A brief overview of OpenSolaris with some historical background * An architectural overview and introduction to the Kernel * Salient features of OpenSolaris: DTrace, Resource Management and Zones, ZFS, Observability and Debugging tools * Current development in the OpenSolaris community About The Speaker : Moinak Ghosh works in the Solaris Sustaining Engineering team in SUN Bangalore. He has been working at SUN for the past 4 years dealing with various aspects of OpenSolaris. He is also heavily involved in the OpenSolaris community, Bangalore OpenSolaris users group and delivered talks at various forums. He also created the 2nd OpenSolaris LiveCD distribution called BeleniX (http://www.belenix.org) 2.5 years back. At present it is one of the most popular community OpenSolaris distributions all over the globe. He has been in the Industry for the past 10 years and worked with a variety of computing platforms and technologies. Prior to joining SUN he was working at the Cisco Offshore Dev. Center at HCL Technologies Chennai. Subscribe to ACM Bangalore Chapter mailing list @ http://groups.google.com/group/acm-bangalore-chapter?hl=en To become a member of ACM Bangalore Chapter, Visit our official website www.acmbangalore.org. Sincerely, ACM Bangalore Chapter.