FAQs

Solaris Express Developer Edition FAQs

General FAQ
This FAQ contains general information about Solaris Express Developer Edition, including Known Issues. This document will be updated periodically with new information as we receive it.

Troubleshooting FAQ
This FAQ contains information specific to Solaris Express Developer Edition installation.

General FAQs for Solaris Enterprise System
This is a general FAQ that deals with the 11/06 Solaris Enterprise System release and also contains general Solaris 10 OS questions.

Solaris Feature FAQ
The Feature FAQ contains questions on Security, Networking, DataMgmt/ZFS, Interoperability, Observability(DTrace), Sun Platform strategy, Virtualization, Availability(Self-Healing), Support Services, and the OpenSolaris program.

Solaris Infrequently Asked and Obscure Questions
This is a third-party FAQ maintained by Argoth at Columbia University in New York, USA. It contains extensive System and Network information.

Solaris 2.X and Later FAQ
This FAQ is a list of questions that are frequently asked about Solaris 2.x and later, maintained by Casper Dik. It was last updated in April 2005.

Solaris Driver Development

Driver Development General FAQ
This FAQ contains information on bug reporting, DDI/DDK, Structures, Variables, Files and OS info; Drivers, FCode, Compiler and Dev Env.

USB FAQs
This FAQ contain information about the USB specifications and products that can be found at the USB Implementers Forum website. The FAQs are intended to provide some answers to issues faced when trying to use USB devices under the Solaris OS.

Hardware and PCI Overview FAQs
This FAQ contains information on hardware-related issues and the PCI bus. This information was valid up through the Solaris 8 OS release.

64-bit FAQ
This FAQ contains information on developing in the 64-bit environment up through the Solaris 8 OS release.

Solaris Trusted Extensions FAQ
This FAQ answers questions about Solaris Trusted Extensions, multilevel systems (MLS) from Sun Microsystems, and moving from the Trusted Solaris 8 OS to Trusted Extensions.

Trusted Solaris 8 FAQs
These FAQs contain information about Trusted Solaris 8 (and older) software only. The tsol-users-ext alias closed on July 27, 2001 and the listed forum no longer exists. Trusted Solaris 8 was integrated into Solaris 10 OS as Solaris Trusted Extensions.

Trusted Solaris 8 questions can be directed to the General Solaris 10 Discussion forum or refer to the OpenSolaris Trusted Extensions project for more information.

Solaris x86 FAQs

Xperts
The BigAdmin XPerts page contains transcripts from the Solaris x86 XPerts sessions.

Solaris x86 FAQ
This FAQ contains frequently-asked questions about the Sun Solaris 2 Operating System on the Intel Platform (x86) found in the alt.solaris.x86 and comp.unix.solaris USENET newsgroups. The alt.solaris.x86 newsgroup covers Solaris on the Intel platform, for version 2.5 and higher.

Sun Studio FAQs

Sun Studio 11 FAQ
The latest production release of Sun Studio 11 software has an IDE, performance analyzer, debugger, and better support for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). This page contains Frequently Asked Questions for the Sun Studio 11 software release on Solaris platforms. Release notes and manuals are available.

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Sun Studio 11 for Linux FAQ
Sun Studio software has supported Linux since the release of Sun Studio 9. The latest production release of Sun Studio 11 software has an IDE, performance analyzer, debugger, and better support for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). This page contains Frequently Asked Questions for the Sun Studio 11 software release on Linux platforms. Release notes and manuals are available.

Chris Quenelles' Sun Studio FAQ
Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Sun Microsystems. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun for more than 10 years. His passion and dedication lead him to create this great list of 'gotchas'. If you don't see your question answered here, ask it in on the Sun Studio forums, or you can add it here without an answer, and someone will probably fill in the answer for you. Don't forget you can add pages to your "watchlist" to get email updates when a page changes. Also, check out Chris' blog.

Sun Studio 10 FAQ

Sun Studio 9 FAQ

Forte Developer for HPC 6 Update 2 FAQ

Open Source FAQs

OpenSolaris FAQ Center
This page contains FAQ documents to help answer your burning questions about the OpenSolaris project, license, and code base. Technical FAQs can be found at the Links page.

OpenSPARC FAQs
This page contains links to the various OpenSPARC FAQ categories: General, Contributors Agreement, Licensing and Technical.

NetBeans
This User FAQ for NetBeans IDE 5.x and NetBeans IDE 4.x provides answers to frequently asked questions relating to the use of the NetBeans IDE.

Java Technology FAQs
This page organizes Java technology Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) pages by platforms and technologies.

Sun Java Web and Directory Services FAQs
This page contains links to Sun Java Web FAQs.

Sun ONE FAQs
This FAQ contains information on the Sun ONE branded products.

Solaris Globalization FAQ
This FAQ contains information (from a pulldown menu) on Locales, Input Methods, Fonts, Languages-Scripts&CharSets.

Globalization Standards FAQ
This page provides links to FAQs on various standards. Some FAQs are hosted on 3rd party sites.

Miscellaneous FAQs

Fortress FAQ
Fortress is a new programming language designed for high-performance computing (HPC) with high programmability.
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System Administration FAQs
This page contains FAQs and links to Networking, Security and other administrative topics from a drop down menu.

Sun Download Center FAQs
This FAQ contains questions about downloading Sun software and using the Sun Download Center (SDLC).