1. What’s new in OpenSolaris 2008.11? Roman Strobl OpenSolaris Evangelist http://blogs.sun.com/observatory

2. pg 2 Agenda What is OpenSolaris? OpenSolaris vs. Solaris What makes OpenSolaris interesting? New features in 2008.11 Conclusion

3. pg 3 What is OpenSolaris? New operating system distribution, based on source code of Solaris Releases: 2008.05 and 2008.11 Open source Free to use and deploy Supported by Sun

4. pg 4 Agenda What is OpenSolaris? OpenSolaris vs. Solaris What makes OpenSolaris interesting? New features in 2008.11 Conclusion

6. Solaris vs. OpenSolaris* * Other Sun & community distributions are also available!

7. pg 7 Agenda What is OpenSolaris? OpenSolaris vs. Solaris What makes OpenSolaris interesting? New features in 2008.11 Conclusion

8. Advantages – in General ZFS – revolutionary file system DTrace – dynamic tracing Scalability, reliability, observability Security (incl. trusted extensions) Compatibility guarantee (stable API) Quote: “Linux feels like it has been written, Solaris like it has been designed” Free & open source, but supported

9. What is ZFS? ZFS = Zettabyte file system Zetta = 10 21 First 128-bit file system Capacity: 256 quadrillion ZB (1ZB = 1 billion TB) Instantaneous snapshots Easy rollback End-to-end integrity If your data is important to you, use ZFS

10. Pooled storage

11. pg 11 Demo Demo: ZFS

12. What is DTrace? Dynamic troubleshooting and analysis tool Provides observability across the entire software stack from one tool Used for Troubleshooting software bugs Detailed observability Capturing profiling data for performance analysis

13. pg 13 Demo Demo: DTrace

14. pg 14 Agenda What is OpenSolaris? OpenSolaris vs. Solaris What makes OpenSolaris interesting? New features in 2008.11 Conclusion

15. pg 15 New Features in 2008.11 (Desktop) Gnome 2.24 + Compiz updates Suspend and resume to RAM New repositories Release, contrib, dev, extra & support More drivers (audio, SD card,...) New applications Firefox 3.0.3 OpenOffice 3.0 Many others...

16. pg 16 OpenSolaris Repositories

17. pg 17 Demo Demo: Desktop Improvements

18. pg 18 Demo Demo: ZFS Timeslider

19. pg 19 Demo Demo: Package Manager Improvements

20. pg 20 Demo Demo: Multimedia

21. pg 21 New Features in 2008.11 (Server) Intel Nehalem support Automated install Distribution constructor Improved web stack Drupal and Django added OpenStorage ClearView Many new packages in the repository

22. What about SPARC support? 2008.05 only supports x86/x64 2008.11 will have a special SPARC release Currently planned for beginning of 2009 It is very important for Sun, it just takes time

23. pg 23 Conclusion 2008.11: lots of new features Better desktop experience Many new applications Ready to be extended as a platform Give it a try today! It’s free. Download from: http://www.opensolaris.com

24. pg 24 Questions? roman.strobl@sun.com

25. Thank you! Roman Strobl OpenSolaris Evangelist http://blogs.sun.com/observatory