illumos

illumos Google Summer of Code protocols published

April 30, all day - Wiesbaden, Germany: Workshop DTrace, “DTrace-Kurzvortrag und -Hands-On für alle ” by FraOSUG – details

May 2, 7-9 pm – Mountain View, CA: Bryan Cantrill and others participate in a Comparative Operating Systems Discussion hosted by SVLUG

If you are a former member or leader of an OpenSolaris User Group, I’d like to hear from you about what we can do to help you talk/learn about illumos and SmartOS. Please write to me. – Deirdré

Mike LaSpina, an old friend to OpenSolaris, writes: “What makes Illumos so attractive? The answer is a handful of exceptionally well-engineered components and features. One recently added feature positions Illumos as a major competitor to Solaris and Linux in the cloud computing space. Max Bruning, Robert Mustacchi, and Bryan Cantrill, all ex-Sun, ported KVM to Illumos. KVM, or kernel-based virtual machine, is an Intel x86 architecture hypervisor service that enables Illumos to use hardware-based virtualization features within the CPU. Currently, Intel chips are supported, with AMD silicon soon to follow. KVM provisions “bare metal operating speed,” bringing Illumos on par … Continue Reading