I said I'd do a few minutes on moving to OpenSolaris on the desktop (from Ubuntu). Happy to do that before it gets too stale if you like.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Boyd Adamson <boyd-adamson at usa.net> wrote: > I plan to come. > > Rob Chanter was talking about doing something... prob can't fit it in this > week :) > > > On 04/03/2009, at 1:55 PM, Nathan Kroenert wrote: > >> Greetings all - >> >> We are rapidly approaching the next meeting, which, as we usually >> aim for, falls on the 3rd Wednesday of the month! >> >> By Crikey - if you missed last month, you missed a blinder... We had >> Nathan and Boyd playing the fool and straight man (I'll leave you to choose >> which was which) in some discussions around SPARC and X86 hardware and had a >> good look at using Dtrace for simple troubleshooting. >> >> Boyd even recalled his previous command - using the up arrow... >> >> This month, we have a bunch of possibles - to be confirmed with the >> speakers. Currently looking like (In the order that folks told me they would >> be interested): >> >> - Andre: A controversial and mysterious topic >> - Daniel Cook: Live Upgrade and Patching stuff >> - Alan Chalmers: AI - Automated Opensolaris install >> - Arya Abdian: ZFS and rsync for backup >> - Greg Boug: VCS (Veritas Cluster) >> >> And possibly some I have forgotten. (Let me know if I forgot!!). >> >> **Speakers:** Please confirm if you can or cannot do this month. :) >> >> Clearly, we won't get through all of these in one meeting - We'll move >> them into next month. :) >> >> Please respond in the positive OR negative ASAP so Pizza and Drinks can >> be planned. :) >> >> Where? >> Level 7, 476 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, >> When? >> Wednesday March the 18th, 2009 at 18:00 for general >> discussion. >> >> Speakers start at 18:30 sharp, with Pizza arriving somewhere around >> 20:00ish. >> >> Speakers / Topics will be: >> >> - Andre van Eyssen: A controversial and mysterious topic >> - Daniel Cook: Live Upgrade and Patching stuff >> - Alan Chalmers: AI - Automated Opensolaris install >> - Arya Abdian: ZFS and rsync for backup >> - Greg Boug: VCS (Veritas Cluster) >> >> Soft drink, coffee/tea and Pizza will be available. (YES - FOOD.) >> >> **If you plan to attend, please reply NOW to nathan at sun.com so that we >> can plan for seating / pizza / drinks!** >> >> To anyone who meets with or talks to folks interested in Solaris: Please >> let everyone know about the meeting, the time and the date. We had a >> great first meeting, and would love to continue to grow the group. >> >> A note on access: The Lifts in the building and entrance to Level 7 >> automatically lock early in the evening, so access will be provided by >> Sun folks on-site. A sign will also be placed close to the ground floor >> lifts with a contact number, should you arrive after the start of the >> meeting. >> >> If you are interested in Solaris, doing interesting things with, or on >> Solaris, we want YOU! >> >> See our opensolaris project page: >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/msosug/ >> >> Hope to see many of you there, and if you are not yet on the alias >> ug-msosug at opensolaris.org >> consider joining us! (See the project page above for details!) >> >> Cheers! >> >> The Instigators. >> >> >> ===================================================================== >> Upcoming Topics / Hopeful Speakers. >> >> Qualities of OpenSolaris and Linux and how they compare >> AVS and Replication >> CrossBow >> ZFS Archive Installation / Flar >> Backup + DR with ZFS >> LU for S10 patching <-- Dan Cook >> OS upgrading >> Qualities of SPARC and X86 hardware <-- Nathan >> FORTH <-- Gavin M >> BSM / Auditing <-- Andre van Eyssen >> Dtrace - Beginner and a little more advanced <-- Boyd/Nathan >> InstallFest <-- Boyd/Nathan/Andre >> New hardware platforms as they arrive <-- Everyone / Anyone >> Redhat in Zones / Brandz in general >> SNMP <-- Arya? >> NAGIOS <-- Arya >> Trusted Extensions >> Cluster framework with Oracle RAC >> Cluster with LDOMS and Zones >> IPS mirror creation <-- Nathan >> Comstar + iSCS >> >> ===================================================================== >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ug-msosug mailing list >> ug-msosug at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-msosug >> -- >> >> >> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// >> // Nathan Kroenert nathan.kroenert at sun.com // >> // Senior Systems Engineer Phone: +61 3 9869 6255 // >> // Global Systems Engineering Fax: +61 3 9869 6288 // >> // Level 7, 476 St. Kilda Road // >> // Melbourne 3004 Victoria Australia // >> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// >> _______________________________________________ >> ug-msosug mailing list >> ug-msosug at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-msosug >> > > _______________________________________________ > ug-msosug mailing list > ug-msosug at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-msosug >
