It is a well-known, ineluctable truth that developer communities run on coffee, pizza, beer, and t-shirts. Now, a year after launch, we finally have SmartOS t-shirts! How do you get one? By contributing to the growth and health of SmartOS and its community. This doesn’t necessarily mean contributing code: it could also mean documentation, useful [...]
Category Archives: community
Spice on SmartOS – Pre-Alpha Testers Welcome
March 29, 2012 – 11:16 am
With the usual caveats that this is pre-alpha, no warranty provided or implied… Only use this stuff on a test machine. It might cause spontaneous combustion, etc….. Much of the credit for this work goes to Lee Essen for his patched qemu: https://github.com/essele/illumos-qemu-port We now have a dataset of that qemu for people who want [...]
illumos User Group Meetup
January 9, 2012 – 4:30 pm
I seem to have mentioned this in every possible venue – except this one. So: meetup! ZFS is ten years old! January’s meeting will feature a report from Matt Ahrens of the ZFS Working Group about what’s new and what’s coming in ZFS, and John Kennedy from Delphix will present on testing in ZFS and illumos. [...]
Solaris Family Reunion Video & Photos
October 7, 2011 – 4:56 pm
Note: the 2nd Annual Solaris Family Reunion will be held Oct 1, 2012, in San Francisco as part of illumos / ZFS Days. Earlier this week Joyent hosted the Solaris Family Reunion, an opportunity for many of us who have been involved with Solaris and its various offspring – or who may be so involved [...]
Alasdair Lumsden of OpenIndiana at LOSUG
September 27, 2011 – 11:04 am
This week at (what used to be) the London OpenSolaris Users Group, Alasdair Lumsden presented an OpenIndiana status update and KVM demo. Unfortunately, it wasn’t filmed, but his excellent slide deck is here. A few points I particularly liked: KVM is a Linux kernel extension that allows user-space programs to utilise the hardware virtualisation features [...]
Solaris Family Reunion
September 24, 2011 – 12:02 pm
NOTE: If you have trouble registering or it looks as if we’ve run out of tickets, please write directly to smartos@joyent.com There’s been a lot of news in the past few months about the progeny of Solaris: Illumos, SmartOS, OpenIndiana, and the forthcoming Oracle Solaris 11. Since many of our old friends/colleagues will be in [...]
Introducing Your SmartOS Community Manager
September 14, 2011 – 4:41 pm
About Me I’m Deirdré Straughan. A great deal about my personal and professional life is available on my site, Countries Beginning with I. I have been a community manager since long before the title existed, first for the Italian startup I worked for in Milan, then for Adaptec (when it bought us), then for Adaptec’s [...]