OSC Tokyo 2010

In 3 days ago, Open source Conference Tokyo 2010 was held at Meisei-Univ, Tokyo. I attended 3 sessions.

• OpenSolaris
  • In 2010/02/19, build 133 was released.
  • Build 134 will be OpenSolaris 2010.03 in late March.
  • Notable new features (found at Feburary)
    • big change of package names (naming rules)
    • change of catalog format
    • refine UI of package manager
    • VM Constructor ... stand-alone application of creating virtual appliance
    • partition edition will be possible when installation is launched from Live CD (by gparted)
    • guest OS on VirtualBox can access USB Devices of OpenSolaris
    • de-duplication of ZFS
    • CUPS becomes default printing system
  • Demo
    • CIFS + SMB on OpenSolaris build 133 on VirtualBox
• openSUSE
  • Build web server in 5 minutes
  • What is SUSE studio?
    • create the install image
      • HDD image
      • CD/DVD image
      • Live CD/DVD
      • virtual appliance
  • Demo of SUSE studio
    • Modify OS user and its settings
    • Off the automatic log-in
    • Basic packages
    • No X and GUI applications
    • select web server - Apache2
      • It's difficult selecting lighttpd or nginx on SUSE studio
      • YaST2-HTTP-Server can manage Apache2 settings on YaST2 (SUSE's GUI/CUI setting tool)
    • SUSE studio can calculate package dependencies automatically
    • select programming language - PHP
    • select relational database - MySQL
      • It's difficult selecting MariaDB on SUSE studio
      • When you select MySQL or PostgreSQL, MariaDB on SUSE studio can modify database's default settings.
    • Language environment as English
    • select keyboard laytout as Japanese 106
    • select timezone as Tokyo
    • setting of SUSEfirewall2
    • default runlevel - 3
    • If you build virtual appliance, SUSE studio can modify virtual memory size, virtual disk size and virtual swap size
    • Other points that dont appear in this wizard aree able to customize with uploading scripting file by youselves
    • At last, press the build button - It takes 5 minutes
  • Then, set the Apache2 by Yast2(CUI)
    • launch when machine starts
    • VirtualHost in httpd.cond file
• NetBeans
  • What is NetBeans?
    • Java IDE - originally
    • Then, support the scripting languages - PHP, Ruby and ECMAScript
    • All in One - Glassfish, MySQL and so on
  • Demo
    • Java IDE + debugging
    • GUI editor of Swing
    • Management of MySQL
    • PHP IDE
  • NetBeans 6.9
    • NetBeans as an Application Platform
    • Refine JavaFX features
      • JavaFX has been used in Geo View : Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics
      • GUI editor of JavaFX
      • Demo of JavaFX editting
    • Beta release in April
    • FCS in June

N.B. These summaries may be imprecise.