Talk on illumos by Toasterson

by vimja on 2025-02-13

In March, we continue our lecture series with a presentation by Till 'Toasterson' Wegmüller. He will talk about the Open Source project illumos.

Date: Thursday, 13th of March 2025
Time: Starting 19:30, doors open at 19:00
Location: At our hackerspace (Zwyssigstrasse 45 in 3007 Bern)

Sun Microsystems began making the sources of its own UNIX operating system available in the mid-2000s. As parts of these efforts, OpenSolaris was created. However, after the acquisition by Oracle, its development was closed down in 2010. Since then, the open source project has been kept alive by its community.

Toasterson has been involved in the project as a maintainer and developer for many years. In the lecture, he will provide an overview of the project and its community and sub-communities. He will talk on how the project adopts new technologies and where the journey will go in the future.

The lecture will be held in English.