1. OpenSolaris Overview
Marty Duey
Angelo Rajadurai
Hugo Rivero

2. Agenda
What is OpenSolaris?
Solaris Features
New features in OpenSolaris
Demos of new features
Desktop improvements
ZFS timeslider
Package manager improvements
Multimedia
Conclusion
pg 2

3. What is OpenSolaris?
Operating system distribution, based on
source code of Solaris
Supported releases every 6 months
2008.05, 2008.11,...
Development builds available
every other week
Open Source
Free to use, deploy
and redistribute
pg 3

4. 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
pg 4

5. DTrace
Ability to dynamically instrument a live running
system
Unlimited probes
Low overhead for enabled probes
No overhead for disabled probes
Java integration getting better every release
1.4.2 & 1.5 – JVMPI & JVMTI
6.0 – Native support
7.0 – Embedding Java Probes into code
DTracetoolkit – pre-built kit
pg 5

6. ZFS
st
Complete redesign of filesystem with 21
century assumptions
Does to Disk what OS does for memory
End to end data integrity
Exciting features
snapshot, cloning, software RAID, integrated
support for SSD and many many more
Unlimited expandability – 128 bit file system
pg 6

7. ZFS working for you
Timeslider
Go back in time (OS X Time Machine done right)
beadm
Rollback
Clone
Snapshot
Sun Unified Storage
pg 7

8. Zones
Innovative virtualization
One kernel multiple Virtual instances
Ability to assign specific resources to zones
Near instant startup and shutdown
Can easily run 10s of Zones easily
Coming soon
Crossbow – ability to split ups network bandwidth
pg 8

9. OpenSolaris Software Distribution
Base packages distributed in a LiveCD
Slim, 690MB download, includes OS Kernel,
GNOME, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc
Additional packages available in software
repositories
New Image Packaging System (IPS)
Packages include metadata with dependency
information
Update Manager notifies when newer
package versions become available
pg 9

10. OpenSolaris Repositories
Community Sun
Extras
Release
Dev
Contrib
Support
Pending

11. OpenSolaris Features
Environment more familiar to developers
GNU, other open source utilities now in default
path
Network-based software delivery (IPS)
Network Auto Magic (NWAM)
ZFS as root file system
Boot environment manager (beadm)
Redesigned Graphical Installer
CIFS Server
pg 11

12. New Features in 2008.11 (Desktop)
Gnome 2.24 + Compiz updates
Suspend and resume to RAM
Available for some models (Toshiba, Lenovo,
Dell, Sun)
More drivers (audio, SD card, ...)
New applications
Firefox 3.0.3
OpenOffice 3.0
Many others...
pg 12

13. New Features in 2008.11 (Server)
Automated Installer
Distribution Constructor
Improved Web Stack
Common Multiprotocol SCSI target
(COMSTAR)
Enhanced repository model
Intel Nehalem support
pg 13

14. 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)
pg 14

15. OpenSolaris Distro Constructor
Create custom bootable images with your
collection of software and settings
Simple xml based software list
Custom post install scripts
Creates iso and usb images
#distro_const build slim_cd.xml
slim_cd.xml

16. OpenSolaris Feature Demo
pg 16

17. 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 drive
Standalone installation
LiveCD or VirtualBox
Very active community effort at
opensolaris.org
Communities, Projects, Forums
pg 17

18. Resources
opensolaris.com
Learn / Use / Shared / get
opensolaris.org
Projects, 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
pg 18

19. Thank you!