[lug] Front Range Open Solaris User Group meeting 2/23/06

[William D. Knoche]

I thought that some of you may be interested in this announcement...

--bill

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The previous meeting of FROSUG involving ZFS was a great success.   Thank you
to all who attended!

We would like to invite you to the next FROSUG meeting, which will  feature Bill
Kucharski presenting BrandZ.  BrandZ is a framework that extends the  Solaris
Zones infrastructure (see http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/)  to create
Branded Zones, which are zones that contain non-native operating  environments.
The term "non-native" is intentionally vague, as the infrastructure  allows for
the creation of a wide range of operating environments.

Each operating environment is provided by a brand that plugs into the  BrandZ
framework. A brand may be as simple as an environment with the  standard Solaris
utilities replaced by their GNU equivalents, or as complex as a  complete Linux
userspace.

Read more about BrandZ at their community page:

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/

Bill Kucharski has been working at Sun Microsystems since 2000.  He  has worked
in the UNIX kernel for over 17 years for companies like Amdahl,  Solbourne and
Bell Labs, mostly in the areas of VM and boot.  Prior to BrandZ, he  was a core
member of the team that ported Solaris to amd64 and before that was  responsible
for bringing up the Solaris kernel on UltraSPARC V. He's also  currently an
OpenSolaris community leader for both BrandZ and the effort to port  Solaris to
PowerPC.

Here are details about the meeting:

Where: Sun Broomfield campus, Conference Center #1 & #2 / Bldg #1
Address: 500 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO 80021
Date: Thursday, February 23, 2006
Agenda:
6:15pm - 6:30pm: Once again, we will be providing pizza and soft drinks!
6:30pm - 8:30pm: BrandZ

Please RSVP by sending your first and last name to
frosug-rsvp(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org by February 22nd. This will help  us know how
much food to get and allow us to make badges in advance.