NEXT WEDNESDAY is the monthly general meeting of SLUUG. This month is also the annual election to our Board Of Directors. 2 GREAT TALKS this month!! Please spread the word! Bob Netherton used to be a frequently loved speaker from Sun Microsystems but we haven’t heard from him for years! This Wed, now an Oracle employee he will tell us what he and the other developers of the Solaris OS have been up to. Before that, Ed Howland will expose those hidden .Dot files in the basic/tutorial. .Dot files are frequently used for configuration files, logs, system stuff,… that the less techie-user would not find interesting…usually…but sometimes you need to get to them!! Wed 9 Feb 2022 6:30 (“Doors” open ~6pm to make sure your mic & video work.) ========================================================== BASE/tutorial: .Dot Files by Ed Howland Per Wikipedia... "Dot file" redirects to the topic Hidden file and hidden directory • What are dotfiles? If, as you say, they are invisible, then how do I view them? • Why to dotfiles exist? Where did they originally come from? What are they used for? • Why are they splattered all over my clean pristine home directory and other folders? • Is there some strategy for managing them well? All these questions and perhaps many more will be attempted to be answered by this talk. If you have any expertise on managing dotfiles, please email your comments, ideas, suggestions, or tips to Ed by mailto:ed.howland@gmail.com before this meeting, and they will be credited to yourself there. ============================================================ MAIN: What's New in Solaris 11.4! by Bob Netherton of Oracle Corp What's New in Solaris 11.4 Serving customers into 2031 and beyond Paraphrasing Mark Twain a bit, rumors of the demise of Solaris have been greatly exaggerated. For many of our customers, SPARC and Solaris continue to be critical technologies and this talk will be focused on how Oracle has supported and will continue to support those customers into the next decade. This will be a technical discussion covering: 1. Solaris Support Repository Updates (SRUs) - what they are and why they matter 2. New features in ZFS, including vdev device removal (has it really been 16 years) 3. Solaris Analytics for fans of Grafana (Solaris Web Dashboard) and Prometheus (Solaris Stat Store) 4. Platform support 5. Security and Compliance Reporting tools 6. Solaris in the Oracle Cloud (Editor: "Cheat" and read ahead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Solaris Bob Netherton is a Master Principal Sales Consultant in the Oracle North American Engineered Systems Infrastructure Specialist Team. He has been with Oracle for 30 years, including the first 18 with Sun Microsystems. Bob holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from the University of Missouri - St. Louis and has co-authored of two books on Solaris Virtualization. In his free time, Bob in an avid music collector, follows the Blues and Cardinals, enjoys amateur radio (K5RLN) and plays board games. Probably too many board games :-) =============================================================== Mtngs are every 2nd Wednesday of the month from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM.