Hey all!
Last month, Crossbow was cool and Dan Cook was even cooler with his
brief discussion on how not to shoot yourself in the foot. Thanks, Dan. :)
Thanks also to Gavin for making repo images available. Expect to see
that facility again for future meetings.
This month, we will have the long awaited Sun Ops Centre discussion,
(including a demo on a working system doing provisioning etc) and a
session by Gavin on building your own repo servers from scratch,
including being able to serve the package metadata. Yes - that's right.
You can build your own repo, so you never need to pull the same data
twice again. :) Wooooo!
See below for topics/speakers.
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 February the 17th, at 18:00 for general
discussion and setup of network stuff.
Speakers start at 18:30 sharp, with Pizza arriving somewhere around
20:00ish.
Speakers / Topics will be:
- Nathan Kroenert: Sun Ops Centre (Previously XVM Ops Centre,
and soon to be Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center!). See what
all the fuss is about, discuss capabilities, strengths,
weaknesses and get a feel for where and if it would be
interesting for you.
- Gavin Maltby: Building a repo server and using it to update
your Opensolaris hosts. For anyone with more than one
Opensolaris host, this is a must, to save time, bandwidth
and your sanity if you don't have the best of internet
connections.
- UpdateFest with a local repository / Optionally, depending
on how cavaleer you are feeling, a minimalist installfest... ;)
Be sure to bring your USB disks or other preferred storage device.
If it's an NTFS filesystem, also bring a windows laptop... ;)
(We can copy onto NTFS through opensolaris, but the FUSE
implementation is pretty slow... ;)
Soft drink, coffee/tea and Pizza will be available. (YES - FOOD.)
**If you plan to attend, please reply NOW to
nathan.kroenert at optusnet.com.au 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 would
love to continue 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://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/User+Group+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.
