Greetings all -
We are rapidly approaching the next meeting, which, as we usually aim
for, falls on the 3rd Wednesday of the month!
Thanks to all those that helped eat Pizza and Drink Beer last month. It
was a great party, with lots of war stories and heaps of great ideas for
the months ahead. And... a late night for some of us... :)
This month we are looking at OpenSolaris 2008.05 and having a discussion
on using commodity hardware to run Solaris.
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 July the 16th, 2008 at 18:00 for general discussion.
Speakers start at 18:30 sharp, with Pizza arriving somewhere around
20:00ish.
Speakers / Topics will be:
- Andrew Foote
Using OpenSolaris 2008.05, and the future of Solaris!
- Installation, package manager
- Using OpenSolaris in Virtual Box
- Upgrades / LU and general features
- What the hell is the difference between Solaris,
OpenSolaris, Nevada etc etc?
- Nathan Kroenert
Solaris on Commodity hardware
- Installation tricks
- Miniroot juggling and driver disasters
- PCI device ID's etc
- Steak 2.0
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 MSOSUG Instigators.
