• NYC local event: UNIGROUP 17-JAN-2019 (Thu) Field Trip: Solaris 11.4 Re

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    UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - JANUARY 2019 ANNOUNCEMENTS ====================================================================

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    1. UNIGROUP'S JANUARY 2019 GENERAL MEETING
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    Topic: Field Trip to Oracle NYC:
    Solaris 11.4 Release Meeting w/ SPARC CPU Update
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    Speaker: Bill Nesheim, SVP Solaris Engineering,
    Oracle/Sun <http://www.oracle.com>

    When: Thursday, January 17th, 2019 (** Regular 3rd Thursday **)

    Where: *** SPECIAL FIELD TRIP LOCATION ***
    Oracle NYC Headquarters
    120 Park Avenue
    (1 block South from Grand Central Station, Enter at
    North-West corner of East 41st Street)
    Midtown, Manhattan
    New York City, 10017
    Meeting Room: US-NEWYOR16-CONF-26004
    *** RSVP IS MANDATORY FOR BUILDING ACCESS ***
    *** SPECIAL FIELD TRIP LOCATION ***
    *** Please RSVP ***

    Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
    6:30 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
    Answers and Current Events
    6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
    7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation

    Cost: See the Meeting+Membership Fee Schedule Below.


    INTRODUCTION:
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    Unigroup's January 2019 meeting will be a Field Trip to Oracle
    Headquarters in NYC and our topic is: Oracle Solaris 11.4 Release
    Meeting w/ SPARC CPU Update. Unigroup is pleased to have Bill
    Nesheim, SVP of Oracle Solaris Engineering presenting to us at
    this meeting.

    Note: Since Oracle will be hosting Unigroup for this meeting
    at their Midtown/NYC Headquarters, Oracle Security WILL NEED
    your RSVP to permit your access to the building, so Please RSVP.

    Unigroup has a couple handfuls of speakers lined up for our
    upcoming meetings, and we are working on locking down
    topics/speakers to meeting dates (see the updated Upcoming
    Meetings section below).

    Unigroup's Meeting Calendar:
    17-JAN-2019: Field Trip to Oracle NYC: Solaris 11.4 Release Meeting
    w/SPARC CPU Update (Presenter: Oracle).
    21-FEB-2019: AMD Server CPU (EPYC) Roadmap (Presenter: AMD).
    21-MAR-2019: To-be-announced.

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    MAIN PRESENTATION
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    Topic: Field Trip: Solaris 11.4 Release Meeting w/ SPARC CPU Update

    Related Topics/Keywords
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    Unix Operating System, Solaris Operating System, SPARC CPU,
    Intel CPU. Hardware Architecture, Industry Trends.

    Introduction & Description of Talk
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    Oracle Solaris Engineering will be presenting:
    Oracle Solaris 11.4 Release meeting w/ SPARC CPU Update.

    Presentation Outline
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    To-be-announced.

    Tentative Detailed Outline:

    - Solaris 11.4 Release and New Features
    - Solaris Roadmap
    - SPARC CPU Update/Roadmap
    - Meltdown/Spectre Information related to Solaris +SPARC/Intel.
    - To-be-announced.

    References & Web Resources:
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    Oracle Solaris:
    http://www.oracle.com/solaris

    Oracle Solaris 11.4 GA Release:
    https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/oracle-solaris-114-released-for-general-availability

    Oracle Solaris 11.4 Release Notes:
    https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E60973/index.html

    Oracle Solaris 11.4 Whats New:
    https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E60974/index.html

    Wikipedia on Solaris:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)

    Wikipedia on SPARC CPU:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC

    Wikipedia on OpenSolaris:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris

    Wikipedia on illumos:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumos

    illumos Project:
    http://wiki.illumos.org

    OpenIndiana Project - Community-driven illumos Distribution:
    https://www.openindiana.org

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    Speaker Biography
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    Bill Nesheim - SVP Solaris Engineering - Oracle

    To-be-announced.

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    Company Biography
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    For information about Oracle, please visit:
    http://www.oracle.com

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    Giveaways:
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    Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have
    been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their
    books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
    meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving
    the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.

    Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
    provided by their User Group programs.

    As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
    start of the meeting.

    Note: Our book supply is currently running low, and we need to
    restock.

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    Fee Schedule:
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    Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group,
    and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members,
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    you to the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!

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    Food:
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    Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.

    Oracle will probably be sponsoring the food service for
    this meeting... Thanks Oracle!

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    Directions:
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    *** SPECIAL FIELD TRIP LOCATION ***

    Location:
    Oracle NYC Headquarters
    120 Park Avenue
    Midtown, Manhattan
    New York City 10017

    Directions:
    Take Subway (4/5/6/7/Times Square Shuttle) to Grand Central Station.
    From Grand Central Station,
    walk South on Park Avenue for 1 block, to E41st Street.
    Enter at the North-West corner of E41st Street.

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    Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
    Please tell your friends about Unigroup!

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    2. PRIOR MEETINGS
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    ** Formal Thank You's to our previous speakers will appear
    in an upcoming announcement. Unigroup issues a "Thank You"
    to all our speakers and sponsors!

    Our thanks goes to The Cooper Union School of Engineering,
    and its staff, for hosting our meetings.

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    3. LOCAL TRADE SHOWS AND EVENTS
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    a) Oracle Cloud Day NYC
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    Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2019

    Where: Grand Hyatt Hotel
    109 East 42nd Street at Grand Central Terminal
    Midtown, NYC 10017

    For information and complimentary registration visit:
    https://eventreg.oracle.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKwebID=0x580052abcd

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    4. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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    We have a series of meetings in the works:
    - 20190117: Oracle Solaris 11.4 Release Meeting
    - 20190221: AMD Server CPU (EPYC) Roadmap
    - 20190???: Multi-Path Redundant Networking/Routing/Switching
    - 20190???: IBM AIX Tuning and AIX Update
    - 20190???: SDP - Software Defined Perimeter
    - 20190???: Linux on ARM
    - 20190???: AI+ML using Open Source Tools
    - 20190???: The Latest C++ Standards, Part 2.
    - 2019????: Datacenter Standards Update
    - 2019????: Current Security Landscape Threats
    - Planning: New CPU Architectures, x86 and ARM.
    - Planning: Programming for Performance with GPUs.
    - Planning: The State of the C++ Ecosystem.
    - Planning: Popular Linux Distribution Round-Up and Comparison
    - Planning: Building a Data Server with ZFS
    - Planning: Virtualization: KVM, Xen/XenServer, VirtualBox
    - Planning: DNS / Dynamic DNS
    - Planning: Fibrechannel and iSCSI Storage
    - Planning: IPsec and VPNs (possibly 2 meetings)
    - Planning: Cloud and Grid Computing
    - Planning: Unix/Linux Authentication
    - Planning: NO SPAM!
    - Planning: Crypto / PKI / GPG-PGP
    - Planning: The latest on *BSD (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD)
    - Planning: The latest on AIX
    - Planning: Security Threats & Anti-Virus
    - Unix/Linux/BSD Clusters and Clustered Databases
    - Patching and Updating Unix/Linux/BSD (rpm. yum, yast, apt, etc.)
    - Building Custom Kernels Unix/Linux/BSD
    - Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
    - LAMP Part 2 - PHP/Python
    - Unix 40th+ Birthday Celebration
    - Samba
    - High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
    - Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
    - GNU Development Environments
    - Java and/or JavaScript Programming
    - Web Development Frameworks

    ** Unigroup Needs Speakers!!
    Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
    interested in. Potential speakers on Unix/Linux/BSD related
    technology topics should please contact the Unigroup Board.

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    5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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    Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving
    the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s.
    Unigroup is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded
    volunteer organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event
    meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating to the
    Unix/Linux/BSD Operating Systems and User Communities. Unigroup
    meetings tend to be focused towards System Administrators, Network
    Administrators, and Software Developers.

    Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
    THURSDAY of Odd Months. We generally try to hold Field Trip or
    Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have the
    ability to hold monthly meetings at our regular meeting location.

    Planned regular meeting dates are (usually 3rd Thursdays):
    01/17/2019, 02/21/2019, 03/21/2019, 05/16/2019, 06/20/2019...
    Also watch for Special Event meetings and "Field Trips" to the
    facilities of local hardware and software vendors.

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    -Rob Weiner
    Unigroup Executive Director
    unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
    http://www.unigroup.org

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