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2 USEIMPROVEEVANGELIZE History ● Solaris is a proprietary UNIX system by Sun Microsystems. ● Widely regarded for it's stability ● Bulk of kernel open-sourced in June 2005 under the CDDL license as OpenSolaris ● Opensolaris :: Linux+GNU ● Code available at opensolaris.org ● Extreme innovation.

3 USEIMPROVEEVANGELIZE Solaris and GNU/Linux GNU utilities System libraries Linux kernel POSIX+ extensions Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org,... UNIX utilities POSIX Solaris kernel

4 USEIMPROVEEVANGELIZE Why Solaris? ● It's technologies! ● ZFS ● Dtrace ● Zones ● Binary compatibility guarantee ●.. and a lot more coming

5 USEIMPROVEEVANGELIZE What can I do on Solaris?

6 USEIMPROVEEVANGELIZE And..

7 USEIMPROVEEVANGELIZE The Distributions ● Sun sponsored – Solaris 10 – Solaris Express Community Edition(every fortnight) – Solairs Express Developer Edition(every 3 months) ● Community – BeleniX(LiveCD x86) – Nexenta(GNU/Opensolaris) – Martux(Sparc LiveCD) – Schillix ● Project Indiana!

8 USEIMPROVEEVANGELIZE Installing Opensolaris ● ● Recommended distribution: SXDE ● Easy to install using the Caiman installer ● File system formats – ZFS – UFS ● Structure of OpenSolaris..

9 USEIMPROVEEVANGELIZE OpenSolaris structure ● Uses GRUB as the bootloader ● Can use ZFS or UFS as the native filesystem ● OpenSolaris requires a primary partition. ● Slices = Partitions within partitions Partition 1 Partition 2 Partition 3 Partition 4 Slice 0 Slice 1 Slice 7 / root /export/home

10 USEIMPROVEEVANGELIZE Installation Simple and elegant installer SX build 70b onwards onwards – Select Language – Select Keyboard layout – Select Disk/Partition – Set Date/Time zone – Extra language support – Create user – Review all settings – Install!

11 USEIMPROVEEVANGELIZE The Future ●.. is exciting! ● Exceptional tools for developers – Sun Studio compilers – Netbeans IDE – Dtrace ● Growing community fostered by Sun's open source commitment. ●.. and Project Indiana /

12 USEIMPROVEEVANGELIZE Project Indiana ●.. is what everyone is talking about in OpenSolaris land. ● Is the promising new OpenSolaris binary distribution ● Lead by Ian Murdock: The 'Ian' in Debian. ● What's a Linux guy doing in OpenSolaris? ● Pre release in Oct 2007, first release in early ● Great new features you always wanted in Solaris.

13 USEIMPROVEEVANGELIZE Project Indiana (cont'd) ● Network based apt-like binary package management called the Universal Packaging system ● The cool new Distro-constructor! – Simply select packages from repository – Customize look and feel – and spread your own distribution! ● Join in! ●

14 USEIMPROVEEVANGELIZE Participate ●  Mailing lists (Chat with Operating Systems experts)  Ongoing projects  Bugs reports/ RFEs  User groups  Blogs ● Ask that question  irc.freenode.net channel: #opensolaris

15 USEIMPROVEEVANGELIZE Where to go for help? ● Stuck on the build? (you read the README, right?)  Ask on ● Questions about the code or found a bug?  Ask on ● Got a fix for a bug?  Request a sponsor on ● Solaris is teh sux0r! Linux rulez!  Flame and debate on

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USEIMPROVEEVANGELIZE ● Yue Chao