Solaris 10 Self Help, which provides guidance about downloading the
Solaris 10 OS onto your system, burning CD and DVD media, and installing the Solaris 10 OS onto your x86 and SPARC machines
Maximizing the Value of Open Source for Solaris, which provides information
about how the alliance between Sun and OpenLogic can help you deploy, manage, and control an enterprise-ready, commercial-grade, open source software
infrastructure
OpenSolaris Knowledge Center*, which provides reference guides,
training materials, and instruction manuals, plus a collection of brief, two-minute videos that walk you through essentials, such as
backing up, partitioning your disk, and installing OpenSolaris
Also see community sites for specific projects, such as:
Crossbow*, which provides the building blocks for network
virtualization and resource control by virtualizing the stack and NIC around any service (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NFS, and so on), protocol, or virtual machine
DTrace*, a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework
Fault Management*, which provides self-healing
functionality and fault management capabilities
Project Honeycomb*, an OpenSolaris project intended to store and
manage large amounts of fixed content
Xen*, an open-source hypervisor developed by the Xen team at
the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
ZFS*, a new kind of file system that provides simple administration,
transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability
GNU/Linux Resources
Sun's GNU/Linux Offerings, which provides information about Sun's GNU/Linux offerings,
a list of Sun hardware and software that is Linux certified/compatible, and links to other resources
Linux to Solaris Administrators Guide (pdf) from
TrekLogic Advanced Solutions, which provides information about similarities and differences between Linux and the Solaris OS to help
Linux administrators administer the Solaris 10 OS
Sun StorageTek 5800 Open Edition software, which is an
integrated, fixed-content archiving system built using open source software and optimized for preservation and digital archiving
Sun StorageTek SL3000 Modular Storage Library, an open archive portfolio
that provides a scalable, energy-conscious midrange modular library and fourth-generation fast-access tape drive
Sun xVM VirtualBox, an open source virtualization platform for x86 hardware
that provides fast performance, ease of use, rich functionality, and modular design and is targeted at server, desktop and embedded use
java.net*, a community for projects related to Java technology, such as
Project Open Service Tag*, which is an implementation of Sun's Service Tag
protocol for product identification and discovery, and OpenSSO*, which
provides core identity services to simplify the implementation of transparent single sign-on (SSO) as a security component in a network infrastructure
Portlet Container 1.0 is Sun's open source implementation of JSR 168 Portlet Container, which is integrated with Sun
Java System Application Server Platform Edition (PE) 9.x and is also part of Sun Java System Portal Server 6.x and 7.x.
OpenDS project*, an open source community building a
free and comprehensive directory service; also see A Rundown on OpenDS,
which summarizes the goals, status, installation, and extensibility of OpenDS
Web site of the Open Source Initiative (OSI)*, a non-profit corporation formed to
educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community
News and coverage for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON)*,
a bazaar for open source technologies that features new voices and projects alongside those that started the open source movement
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