[ug-discuss] Re: FROSUG February meeting announcement

[Sam Falkner]

Reminder, the FROSUG meeting on BrandZ is this coming Thursday,  
February 23.

- Sam

On Feb 6, 2006, at 12:11 PM, Sam Falkner wrote:

> 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.
>
> - Sam
>