OpenSolaris Overview

Marty DueyAngelo RajaduraiHugo Rivero

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Agenda

What is OpenSolaris?Solaris FeaturesNew features in OpenSolarisDemos of new features

Desktop improvementsZFS timesliderPackage manager improvementsMultimedia

Conclusion

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What is OpenSolaris?

Operating system distribution, based on source code of SolarisSupported releases every 6 months

2008.05, 2008.11,...Development builds available

every other weekOpen SourceFree to use, deploy and redistribute

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Solaris Features

Because of a common origin, OpenSolaris inherits Solaris 10 features, such as:

ZFS: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/Dtrace: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/dtrace/Zones: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/Service Management Facility (SMF):

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/smf/Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

And many more. See http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/features.jsp

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DTrace

Ability to dynamically instrument a live running system

Unlimited probes Low overhead for enabled probesNo overhead for disabled probes

Java integration getting better every release1.4.2 & 1.5 – JVMPI & JVMTI 6.0 – Native support7.0 – Embedding Java Probes into code

DTracetoolkit – pre-built kit

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ZFS

Complete redesign of filesystem with 21st century assumptions

Does to Disk what OS does for memoryEnd to end data integrityExciting features

snapshot, cloning, software RAID, integrated support for SSD and many many more

Unlimited expandability – 128 bit file system

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ZFS working for you

TimesliderGo back in time (OS X Time Machine done right)

beadmRollbackCloneSnapshotSun Unified Storage

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Zones

Innovative virtualizationOne kernel multiple Virtual instancesAbility to assign specific resources to zonesNear instant startup and shutdownCan easily run 10s of Zones easily

Coming soonCrossbow – ability to split ups network bandwidth

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OpenSolaris Software Distribution

Base packages distributed in a LiveCDSlim, 690MB download, includes OS Kernel,

GNOME, Firefox, Thunderbird, etcAdditional packages available in software repositories

New Image Packaging System (IPS)Packages include metadata with dependency

informationUpdate Manager notifies when newer package versions become available

OpenSolaris RepositoriesCommunity Sun

Release

Dev

Contrib

Pending

Extras

Support

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OpenSolaris Features

Environment more familiar to developersGNU, other open source utilities now in default

pathNetwork-based software delivery (IPS)Network Auto Magic (NWAM)ZFS as root file system

Boot environment manager (beadm)Redesigned Graphical InstallerCIFS Server

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New Features in 2008.11 (Desktop)

Gnome 2.24 + Compiz updatesSuspend and resume to RAM

Available for some models (Toshiba, Lenovo, Dell, Sun)

More drivers (audio, SD card, ...)New applications

Firefox 3.0.3OpenOffice 3.0Many others...

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New Features in 2008.11 (Server)

Automated InstallerDistribution ConstructorImproved Web StackCommon Multiprotocol SCSI target

(COMSTAR)Enhanced repository modelIntel Nehalem support

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Activity in Software Repositories

Hundreds of Open Source packages are available through the repositories

More than 2900 unique packages, as of 12/10“Cluster” packages allow one-click install of full development environments

Web Stack (amp-dev): Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python, Squid, memcached, netbeans, etc.

Ruby (ruby-dev)Sun Studio (ss-dev)HPC (hpc-dev)

OpenSolaris Distro Constructor

Create custom bootable images with your collection of software and settingsSimple xml based software listCustom post install scriptsCreates iso and usb images

#distro_const build slim_cd.xml

slim_cd.xml

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OpenSolaris Feature Demo

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Conclusion

OpenSolaris gives you access to the latest innovation in Solaris

Lots of new features for developers and deployers

Easy to take it for a test driveStandalone installationLiveCD or VirtualBox

Very active community effort at opensolaris.org

Communities, Projects, Forums

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Resources

opensolaris.comLearn / Use / Shared / get

opensolaris.orgProjects, Forums, Source Code browser

What's new in 2008.11:http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/features/whats-new/200811/

How-to guide for VirtualBox:http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2008.11/getstart/virtualbox.html

Thank you!