On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:17:47PM -0400, Steven Destika wrote:
> I have pretty much said it already that much has to be done and
> OpenSolaris unfortunately does not have the luxury of taking it at a
> slow pace. At a slow pace the interest in OpenSolaris will fade off -
> I fear. I am not sure if I can "advise" nor do I have a concrete plan
> but all I can sayis that you guys need to penetrate more into the
> community
Yes, we know. And contrary to your implication, we have been doing
everything that you have suggested -- to an extraordinary degree, in
fact. To wit:
> - via conferences
In the past eighteen months, Solaris and OpenSolaris have been represented
at:
- USENIX '04, where we presented a paper in the General Track:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/dtrace_usenix.pdf
And where we additionally held a very well-attended Solaris BOF:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bmc?entry=bof
- LISA '04, where we presented a Technical Session:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/dp/zones_lisa.pdf
And where we had a very well-attended Solaris BOF:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jimgris?entry=solaris_bof_pics_lisa
- USENIX SEC '04, where we had a very well-attended BOF:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/casper?entry=the_solaris_bof
- OSCON '04, where we had a very well-attended BOF:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jimgris?entry=solaris_hot_zone_oscon
- USENIX '05, where we had a very well-attended BOF:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/eric_boutilier?entry=solaris_bofs_at_usenix_05
- JavaOne, where we gave a keynote to a quarter of a million people:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ahl?entry=dtrace_in_the_javaone_keynote
Where we had a very well-attended BOF:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/harpster?entry=opensolaris_javaone
And where we had a packed-to-the-gills talk (900+ people) on DTrace:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ahl?entry=dtrace_presentation_at_javaone
- OSCON '05, where Keith presented OpenSolaris and I presented DTrace,
and we both gave a tutorial on how to download, build, debug and fix
OpenSolaris, and held a BOF in which one audience member actually wrote
a DTrace provider for PHP. Oh, any we held two great after-hours
parties.
- USENIX SEC '05, where we ran (yet another) BOF:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/gbrunett?entry=sun_security_bof_usenix_sec05
- LinuxWorld SF '05, where we ran a booth for two days, held a BOF, and
topped it all off with a very interesting lunch with Jeff Waugh of Ubuntu
fame:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bmc?entry=ubuntu_and_dtrace_break_bread
And this is _only_ industry conferences -- I'm not including Sun-sponsored
conferences and public events. (And even then, I'm sure I forgot some
conference or conferences where we presented -- apologies for those that
I missed.) Point is: we're presenting at every conference we can think of;
if we missed one, let us know. But please, be specific...
> online tutorials
In what topic? It would be impossible to exhaustively list every tutorial
that we have put online in the last eighteen months; if you can be more
specific, you can be pointed to the online resources in that area.
> driver writing fest - ideas are not scarce. We need more details in the
> blogs - not just dtrace scripts - how about Solaris scheduler function
Glad you asked. Chew on this opus:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/esaxe/20050614#debugging_solaris_scheduling_problems_and
And save room for dessert:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/andrei?entry=binding_processes_to_resource_pools
> howabout DTrace implementation details etc.?
Again, glad you asked:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bmc?entry=solaris_10_revealed
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tomee/20050614#tom_erickson_s_weblog
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ahl/?anchor=dtrace_user_land1
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bmc?entry=dtrace_safety
And we _did_ design the source to be read after all, as the first few lines
of dtrace.c will confirm:
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/uts/common/dtrace/dtrace.c
> There is very less known about Solariskernel code by even lesser number
> of people which needs to be fixed - I am not saying it is an overnight
> job
Oh, we know it's not an overnight job -- it hasn't been easy to prepare
the more than one thousand pages of technical content in our blogs since we
launched OpenSolaris, and we know that it's even more difficult to get
people to read it. But understand that we're doing everything in our
power to get as many people to understand the Solaris implementation as
possible. So given how interested you are in learning about the Solaris
kernel, can we count on seeing you at our BOF at LISA '05, USENIX '06,
USENIX SEC '06 or OSCON '06?
- Bryan
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bryan Cantrill, Solaris Kernel Development. http://blogs.sun.com/bmc
_______________________________________________
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
