OpenSolaris Technical Essentials Guide

Getting started with something new can be a little intimidating, especially when there is a wealth of information to go through. Sun has created a free special learning guide, to help individuals who are new to the OpenSolaris platform get the most out of it. This guide distills down hundreds of technical documents, discussion forums, code samples, and other materials in to a single concise guide designed to help you focus on the key knowledge and skills you need to unlock the power of OpenSolaris.

This web based guide introduces the basic technical skills around OpenSolaris and guides you through various resources required to successfully install, use, administer, and distribute OpenSolaris. The skills covered by this guide include:

• OpenSolaris - Introduction, what is it, communities, projects, downloads locations
• Features of OpenSolaris (Dtrace, Zones , Predictive Self Healing, Security, SMF etc) Stand-alone OpenSolaris Installation (slim install), downloading OpenSolaris, installing and start using it
• Basic JDS usage & basic administration (internet connection, date/time, user administration, printing, backup etc.)
• Cool Features of OpenSolaris (playing music, web cam, BrandZ, skype in BrandZ, Compiz, Building OpenSource applications, Second Life etc)
• Using the IPS packager
• Running basic compilers using GNU compilers, Java JDK 6.0, NetBeans 6.0 for C/C++
• Describing the Distribution Constructor

Additional Resources

Visit our Learning Centers to learn more about OpenSolaris / Solaris features The Learning Center provides you with easy to access multimedia presentations and demos about these GREAT features.

You can refer to the How to Guides. Your source of quick learning for most of these features including Containers, ZFS, Dtrace, SMF and Security.

You may also look at the Hot Topics on Sun's Latest innovative Technologies.

Want to get complete formal trainings around Solaris? Visit our Solaris Administrators Learning path.