The Open Solaris Operating System and Sun x

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The Open. Solaris Operating System and Sun x. VM Virtual. Box Blake Deville

The Open. Solaris Operating System and Sun x. VM Virtual. Box Blake Deville

Solaris Since the early 1980 s, Sun worked on the Sun. OS variant of

Solaris Since the early 1980 s, Sun worked on the Sun. OS variant of UNIX. In 1987, Sun and AT&T merged BSD, System V, and Xenix to create System V Release 4. Releases ending at Sun. OS 4 were based off of BSD and later renamed to Solaris 1. Sun. OS 5 was based off of SVR 4 and referred to as Solaris 2. After Solaris 2. 6, the minor version replaced the major (The current Solaris 10 is Sun. OS 5. 10).

Solaris, cont'd. Became very popular on Sparc systems. Sun. OS 5 included the Open.

Solaris, cont'd. Became very popular on Sparc systems. Sun. OS 5 included the Open. Windows environment, and later included the Common Desktop Environment. As of Solaris 10, the default desktop environment is the Java Desktop System. Alternatives are supported, such as KDE, Gnome 2. 0, and XFCE.

Open. Solaris Started as a fork of the Solaris 10 code. First available on

Open. Solaris Started as a fork of the Solaris 10 code. First available on June 14, 2005. Both binary and source availability, free of cost. Gradually, more of the Solaris code will be available. Starting with the current version of Solaris (Nevada), code will be used on Open. Solaris. Also available as a weekly-updated developer release. The only SVR 4 -based open-source UNIX.

Open. Solaris, Cont'd. The code for Dtrace was released first, followed by much of

Open. Solaris, Cont'd. The code for Dtrace was released first, followed by much of the Solaris code. Some parts were still only available as binary. Licensed under the Common Development and Distribution License. The CDDL is OSI-approved and based off of the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Because of MPL roots it is not compatible with the GPL.

Project Indiana One of the most significant releases of Open. Solaris. Version 2008. 05

Project Indiana One of the most significant releases of Open. Solaris. Version 2008. 05 (Released in May). Ian Murdock of Debian fame was asked to head the project. Brings several successes of Linux distributions to Open. Solaris. Includes Gnome, GNU tools, and a networkbased package manager.

Project Indiana, Cont'd. Functions as a live CD. Contains the Grub bootloader. X 86(_64),

Project Indiana, Cont'd. Functions as a live CD. Contains the Grub bootloader. X 86(_64), Power. PC, and Sparc architectures supported. Linux influences make Open. Solaris easier to pick up with hardly any learning curve. http: //www. opensolaris. org

The Image Packaging System Similar to Debian apt and Free. BSD ports. Slight emphasis

The Image Packaging System Similar to Debian apt and Free. BSD ports. Slight emphasis on setting up one's own repository. Has the ability to send packages to a repository. GUI (Package Manager) and command-line variants (pkg). Not yet complete, and has some quirks. Repositories based on “Authorities. ”

Open. Solaris Variants Nexenta OS – Open. Solaris with Ubuntu influences Mila. X –

Open. Solaris Variants Nexenta OS – Open. Solaris with Ubuntu influences Mila. X – Minimalist Open. Solaris distribution Schilli. X – First Open. Solaris live CD/distribution Open. Solaris for System Z – port to IBM's System Z mainframe. Belenix – Served as a basis for Project Indiana.

Typical Installation Boot the Open. Solaris live CD Double-click the “Install Open. Solaris” icon

Typical Installation Boot the Open. Solaris live CD Double-click the “Install Open. Solaris” icon on the desktop. Select a partition. Timezone, date, etc. Default language Set the root password (Optionally create a user) Install and reboot.

Sun x. VM Virtual. Box Originally developed by Innotek, but now by Sun. At

Sun x. VM Virtual. Box Originally developed by Innotek, but now by Sun. At first only free for personal/evaluational use, but later most of the source code was released under GPLv 2. Features seamless desktops, USB support (not in open-sourced version), audio, mounting an iso as a CD/DVD drive, and snapshots. Runs most operating systems decently. http: //www. virtualbox. org

Useful Links http: //www. opensolaris. org http: //www. opensolaris. com/get/index. html https: //www 2.

Useful Links http: //www. opensolaris. org http: //www. opensolaris. com/get/index. html https: //www 2. sun. de/dct/forms/reg_us_2307_22 8_0. jsp http: //www. virtualbox. org