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6:30pm tutorial = Hidden .DOT files
~7:00 General Q&A. Announcements.
~7:15 the main talk = Solaris

Wed 9 Feb 2022

BASEIC/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 :-)