Project Crossbow is an innovate, and I think important, new contribution to the OpenSolaris project. Crossbow makes network virtualization and resource management first-class citizens in OpenSolaris. If follows in the footsteps of ZFS by having a simple and easy-to-understand interface, while providing great flexibility and power to the administrator. My February column for ;login: Magazine describes and explores Project Crossbow in detail.
Posts under ‘Operating Systems’
Nice list of software that works / doesn’t work on Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard compatibility list and upgrade method
Avi Silberschatz now blogging
Thought you might like to check out the blog of Avi Silberschatz – very good stuff. If you don’t know, Avi is Chairman of the C.S. Department at Yale U, and coauthor of our Operating Systems Concepts textbooks.
Here is his blog: Avi’s blog
Operating System Concepts, 8th Edition published
Very pleased to say that OSC 8th edition (the dinosaur book) is now out. All the details are at Amazon.
Unfortunately a textbook is never done. On my current todo list is updating all of the powerpoint slides that accompany the text, made available for faculty to modify and use.
LISA 2008 conference Call for Papers
The LISA (large installation systems administration) conference of USENIX has released its 2008 call for papers. I have a vested interest in spreading the word because I’m on the program committee and wants lots of (good) papers to read and select from. LISA is a high-quality, refereed paper conference. The theme for LISA ‘08 is [...]
Column – The Security Sheriff
My column has been published in ;login:. This month it’s about the Solaris Security Benchmark, which is a top-notch tool for checking and improving the security of your Solaris systems. Some ;login: contents is freely available at ;login: April 2008, but my column this month is not one of them. I’ve posted the .pdf here [...]
Virtualization Column parts 1 and 2 SysAdmin Magazine
My two-part column discussing the ins and outs of system virtualization are now available on-line from SysAdmin Magazine.
Navigating the System Virtualization Maze – Part 1
Navigating the System Virtualization Maze – Part 2
Call For Papers for LISA ‘07
I’m on the program committee for the USENIX LISA ‘07 conference (a preeminent systems administration conference with refereed papers). The deadline for paper submissions is fast approaching. Below I’ve included the call for papers. If you’ve been doing research on systems administration or been implementing new tools or methods please consider submitting your work [...]
History of the Operating System Concepts Textbooks
I thought it would be fun / informative to post the covers of the history Operating System Concepts. The general name for the series is “the dinosaur book” although the covers have included non-dinos as well. As far as we know this series is the best-selling operating system textbook.
The critters on the cover indicate [...]