illumos update in LA

I'll be giving an update on illumos, as part of my talk in LA this evening. If you're around, please join us!

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Unknown said…
They were making a video of the presentation and since I had to leave a little early I was wondering if that was available online somewhere?

Thanks for the talk.

alann
January 7, 2011 at 12:08 PM
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