OpenSolaris Introduction
Making It Feel Like Home
Ahm ed Saeed
Sun Campus Ambassador
●
Ahmed.Saeed@Sun.Com

Agenda
•Sol i and penSol i Hi or
ars O ars st y
•W hy penSol i
O ars?
•Di rbuton nt oducton
st i i I r i
•How o nst l
t I al
•I age
m Packagi Syst I
ng em (PS)
•M aki I
ng t Your Ever
yday S
O
•Next St
eps
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Solaris and
OpenSolaris History
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Solaris and OpenSolaris History
•Solaris is a proprietary UNIX system by Sun
Microsystems
•Solaris is widely regarded for it's stability
•Open Sourced in June 2005 under the CDDL license as
OpenSolaris
•Community at “opensolaris.org\"
•Extreme innovation
•SXDE first released on February 2007
•Project Indiana – OpenSolaris2008.05,
OpenSolaris2008.11
•The next will be OpenSolaris 2009.06
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Solaris and OpenSolaris History
Sol s
ari and N U / nux
G Li
Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, ...
GNOME
X Window System
UNIX utilities
GNU utilities
System
POSIX+ extensions POSIX
libraries
Linux kernel Solaris kernel
Hardware
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Solaris and OpenSolaris History
Sol s
ari and penSol s
O ari
•Ent prse ass
er i cl •W eb
econom y
•Unm atched evelof •Lat ars
l est Sol i
support innovatons
i
•Long el
r ease e •Shor el
cycl t r ease e
cycl
( 5
3­ year s) (ever 6 ont
y m hs)
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Solaris and OpenSolaris History
W hat s penSol s?
iO ari
ZFS
DTrace
CIFS
Clearview
IPS
FMA
Com m uniy tci i + ars nnovaton
t Par i paton Sol i I i
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Why OpenSolaris?
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Why OpenSolaris?
•I' t
ts echnol es!
ogi
•ZFS
•Dt ace
r
•Zones
•Bi y
nar com patbiiy
i lt guar ee
ant
•and l or com i
a ot m e ng
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Why OpenSolaris?
W hat Can o O penSol s?
I D on ari
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Why OpenSolaris?
Com pi I
z ntegration
•Com pi i a
z s com posii w i
tng ndow
m anager t
hat uses gr
3D aphi
cs
accel aton a penGL
er i vi O
•Com pi pr des i
z ovi varous
new
graphi f s
calef ect and eat es any
f ur on
deskt envionm ent ncl ng
op r ,i udi
Gnom e and
KDE
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Distribution Introduction
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Distribution Introduction
•Sun
sponsored
>Sol i 10
ars
>Sol i Expr
ars ess
Com m uniy ton SXCE) –new t ever t o
t Edii ( bis y w
w eeks
•Com m uniy
t
>Bel X Li
eni ( veCD
x86)
>Nexent (
a GNU/ pensol i
O ars)
>M ar ux
t SPARC veCD)
( Li
>Schilx
li
•Pr ect I ana!
oj ndi
>O penSol i
ars2008.
11
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Distribution Introduction
Project ndi
I ana
•The oj
pr ect behi t fr penSol i
nd he ist O ars
di rbuton
st i i
•Lead I M ur
by an dock:The I n
'an'i Debi
an
•W hats Li
' a nux
guy ng n penSol i
doi i O ars?
•Gr
eat new eat es
f ur you w ays ant i
al w ed n
Sol i
ars
•Pr r eased n ct
e­ el i O .2007,fr el
ist r ease n
i
2008.
05,second el
r ease n
i 2008.11
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Distribution Introduction
November, 2008
NEW
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Distribution Introduction
O penSol s
ari 2008.11
•Fist r ease he penSol i O S
r el oft O ars
•Redi rbut e veCD m age
st i abl Li i
•Graphi nst l
cali aler
•GNO M E/Com pi deskt
z op
•GNU ool P/ ARS
t s;AM M depl
oym ent sof w ar
t e
•ZFS def t r ie
as aul oot fl system
•New w or package eposiores I
net k r t i (PS)
•St lt (
abiiy ZFS
Snapshot and l
Rolback)
•RBAC Rol Based
( e­ Access
Cont ol
r)
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Distribution Introduction
2008. I
11 nstalati Requi
l on rem ents
•M i m um
ni
>3 Har Di
GB d sk
>512 B
M RAM
•Recom m end
>10 Har Di
GB d sk
>M or t
e han
512 B
M RAM
•ZFS
suppor y
t onl
•M uliboot
t­
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How to Install
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How to Install
G RU B
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How to Install
Choose Keyboard
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How to Install
Choose Language
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How to Install
D esktop and cense
Li
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How to Install
D evi D ri
ce ver tii
U lty
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How to Install
Instaler el
l W com e
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How to Install
Choose Parti on
ti
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How to Install
Choose m e
Ti Zone
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How to Install
Choose Locale
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How to Install
Enter sers
U
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How to Install
Conf rm
i
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How to Install
Instali .
lng. .
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Image Packaging
System
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Image Packaging System
•Net or packagi syst
w k ng em
•Easy o
t adm i st
ni er
•Devel
oper can
s easiy eat packages
l cr e
•Det m i
er nes,cont ol and esol
r s r ves
dependenci
es
•Rapi delver offxes
d i y i
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Image Packaging System
I Reposi
PS tory
•ht p:/
t /pkg.
opensol i or
ars. g
>Set as aul PS hort
def t I aut iy
>4460~
packages
•ht p:/ ast ave. w or or 10000
t /bl w net k. g:
>1700~
packages
•ht p:/
t /pkg.
sunf eew ar com :
r e. 9000
>290~
packages
•SVR4
packages e ilsuppor ed
ar stl t
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Image Packaging System
U si I by U I
ng PS G
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Image Packaging System
U si I by
ng PS Com m and ne
Li
•Check authority repository
$ pkg authority
AUTHORITY URL
opensolaris.org (preferred) http://pkg.opensolaris.org:80
•Add a new repository
# pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.sunfreeware.com:9000 sunfreeware
•Set timeout environment variable
$ export PKG_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=90
•Update catelogs
$ pfexec pkg refresh
•Install package
$ pfexec pkg install sunstudioexpress
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IPS Demo
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Making it feel like home
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Making it feel like home
M ake your user sudoer
a
•Who is a Sudoer?
•To set your self a sudoer
$ su
$ vim /etc/sudoers
Add ur_username ALL=(ALL) ALL
After the line root ALL=(ALL)ALL
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Making it feel like home
Sof are
tw That You Can et
G From PS
I
•GNU Build tools
•Open Office
•JDK
•NetBeans
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Making it feel like home
M aki i pl M p3
ng t ay
•Got to
> http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-de
•Download the file
•Extact it
•Copy it to the gstreamer file
$ cp file /usr/lib/gstreamer
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Demo
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Next Steps
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Next Steps
Get Involved •Join the Student Community!
>Li t Ni publc t
nk o ng i sie
Join the forum
●
>http://forums.opensolaris.com/index.jspa
●Download OpenSolaris2008.05
>http://www.opensolaris.com/get/
●Learn how to use
>http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/
●Watch Indiana Project
>http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ind
iana/
●Subscribe mail list
>indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org
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Next Steps
O penSol rs.
ai com
I al t
nst lI
Experence t
i I
Get I
t
•Easy
•Avaiabl •Li CD
l e ve
•G raphi
cal
everyw here •See the best
•Supported on
•Sm aler aster
lf i O penSol s,
n ari ~ 1000 system s
dow nload ri f
sk ree •Runs n
i popul ar
virtualzati
i on
44 envi ronm ents

Next Steps
O penSol s.
ari com
•Learn
>Expl e he ear ng
or t l ni oppor unii
t tes
>Get t gui
he des
and deos
vi
•Colabor e
l at
>J n he
oi t com m unii
tes
>M ake
your m ar p
k;hel shape
t next gener i oft Sol i O S
he aton he ars
>Connect w ih
t Sun stngui
di i shed
engi
neers
and her l
ot eadi lght oft O penSol i com m uniy
ng i s he ars t
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OpenSolaris
Introduction
THANK YOU!
Ahmed Saeed
●
Sun Campus Ambassador
●
Ahmed.Saeed@Sun.com