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Sun and the OpenSolaris Community Announce the Immediate Availability of OpenSolaris 2008.11 With innovative features like Time Slider, COMSTAR, automated installer, enhanced IPS, new repositories with expanded software choices. Get the Software Now

 
 
 
 

Working With Multiple Boot Environments on the OpenSolaris OS With the OpenSolaris beadm utility, you can efficiently create, modify, or delete multiple boot environments with different system configurations and switch back and forth among them with ease. Note: This article has been updated to reflect the file structure in OpenSolaris 2008.11.

 

New design for opensolaris.com Check out the many new features: enhanced navigation, download, search, and multimedia capabilities; availability of the GET page in 23 languages; automatic notifications on topics of your choice through a new RSS feed; and streamlined forum registrations.

 
 
 
 

Porting to the Solaris OS Learn about issues and tips for porting C and C++ applications to the Solaris OS.

 

Introducing pfexec, a Convenient Utility in the OpenSolaris OS Passwordless pfexec is the OpenSolaris version of Linux's sudo. Learn how to assign the appropriate rights profile to users so that they can execute commands with root privileges by prepending pfexec to the commands without becoming root. Note: This article has been updated with clarifications.

 

Installing Sun Web Stack on OpenSolaris OS Sun Web Stack contains numerous preconfigured tools (Apache, MySQL, PHP, NetBeans IDE, and others) for developing and deploying applications. This article describes how to install and initialize the stack on OpenSolaris.

 
 
 
 

Announcing Solaris 10 10/08 The latest Solaris 10 release is adding new hardware support and significant enhancements to the innovative Solaris ZFS file system. Read the Press Release Watch the Video

 
 
 
 

Developer Recipes: Setting Up an OpenSolaris NAS Box Use the new CIFS server in OpenSolaris to create a home NAS box to replace a Windows share machine.

 

Using Intel's Threading Building Blocks (TBB) with Sun Studio 12 Discover how to use Sun Studio to build Intel's Threading Building Blocks (TBB), an open-source runtime library that reduces the effort required to express parallelism in C++ programs.

 

OpenSolaris 2008.05 is Now Available Take your idea from experiment to global deployment on a single platform in a familiar environment. Complete with free, built-in features, OpenSolaris can be deployed on nearly 1000 systems.

 
 
 
 

Join the Open Storage Revolution! Sun is leading the Open Storage revolution and invites you to join the discussion and escape the confines of proprietary, closed, expensive storage.

 

Sun Studio at Community One On May 5th in San Francisco, this free developer event includes content tracks from Java and scripting development to OSs and databases. Check out the Sun Studio sessions for C/C++/Fortran developers. CommunityOne

 

Young Developers These tools and web sites teach young people how to program using the Java programming language, as well as languages developed for ease of use.

 

College Students: Attend CommunityOne and JavaOne Conferences for Free Learn about virtualization, application observability, security, interoperability, performance, and more for the Solaris OS at the CommunityOne and JavaOne conferences -- for free.

 

Using Sun Studio with the GCC Tool Chain Sun Studio can interoperate with the GCC tool chain in different ways. This page discusses the different kinds of interoperability and what the caveats are.

 

SAM-QFS Code Open Sourced We are please to announce that we have open sourced the SAM-QFS code! This major contribution to the OpenSolaris community is available on the OpenSolaris Project: SAM/QFS homepage. We are very excited to take this big step in creating an open source community around SAM-QFS and continuing to grow Open Solaris as a premier storage OS.

 

Observations From Sun's Group Manager of OpenSolaris and LAMP Development Kuldip Oberoi chatted recently about his thoughts on OpenSolaris and application development.

 

ClusterTools 8 (CT8) Early Access 1 (EA1) Release Now Available! The CT8 EA1 software is a set of MPI libraries and tools for launching parallel MPI jobs on Solaris (SPARC and x86/x64). New in CT8 EA1 is MPI profiling support, Infiniband multi-rail communication, support for C++ applications built with libstlport4, as well as other fixes and features contributed to Open MPI by the community.

 

Introduction to Solaris and opensolaris.org An introduction to the Solaris Operating Environment and the OpenSolaris open source project.

 

Solaris Cluster 3.2 2/08 is Now Available! The 1st update of Solaris Cluster 3.2 increases flexibility, ease of use and extends virtualization support.

 

New! Ruby Developer Resource Center Just learning or already deploying? Get downloads, docs, news feeds, blogs, screencasts, and learning trails to help you build applications using Ruby, JRuby, and Ruby-on-Rails.

 
 
 
 

Atomic SPARC: Using the SPARC Atomic Instructions This article introduces the SPARC memory model and atomic instructions, then implements some IBM AIX interfaces for use on the Solaris OS (SPARC Platform Edition).

 

NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta Blogging Contest Start blogging about NetBeans IDE 6.1 and win some fabulous prizes. Download NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta

 

What We're Watching: pNFS in OpenSolaris A presentation from Spencer Shepler and Siddheshwar Mahesh on pNFS in OpenSolaris - SNIA Storage Developer Conference (September 2007)

 

IPv6 on Solaris This paper is targeted towards a developer with IPv4 experience and looking to migrate to IPv6.

 

Playing with ZFS, USB memory disks and VMware Fusion At Immersion Week in Chicago, they gave Jim Laurent a USB hub and 3 memory sticks. Read how to demonstrate ZFS on them using nothing more than a Mac Book Pro with VMware Fusion and Solaris 10.

 

What We're Watching: Sun and EMC Engineers Talk About the SNIA XAM Sun and EMC engineers Mark Carlson and Scott Ostapovicz talk about the SNIA eXtensible Access Method (XAM) Standard (Sept, 2007).

 

Now Available: Crossbow Beta Create your own network in a box. Crossbow provides the building blocks for network virtualization and resource control by virtualizing the stack and NIC around any service, protocol or Virtual machine. The source code and binaries are available now.   Learn more

 

Debugging the JVM Using dbx See how to use the Sun Studio tool dbx to debug a particularly thorny JVM crash on a Solaris x86 system.

 

Sun Studio Express - February 2008 Build See how to use the Sun Studio tool dbx to debug a particularly thorny JVM crash on a Solaris x86 system.

 

What We're Watching: Hyon Kim on a New Multipath Management API for SCSI Devices Hyon Kim reports on a new multipath management API for SCSI devices at SNIA's Storage Developers' Conference (Sept, 2007).

 

What We're Watching: John Forte on a New iSCSI Management API John Forte presents a new iSCSI Management API at the SNIA Storage Developer Conference, September 10-13, 2007.

 
 
 
 

MySQL article - Sun and MySQL: How It Stacks Up for Developers MySQL, the world's most popular open-source database, fills an important niche in Sun's software stack. With Sun's reach and resources, MySQL is poised for even wider adoption.

 

Updated: MySQL InnoDB Performance Tuning for the Solaris 10 OS You can maximize the performance of MySQL on the Solaris platform through configuration and tuning of the database server, along with optimizing the Solaris OS for MySQL.

 

What We're Watching: Mark Carlson on the Management Framework Reference Updated! Video repaired, full hour now available! At SNIA SDC (Sept, 2007), Mark Carlson provides an early look at SNIA's Management Framework effort.

 

Tape Drive Support in Solaris Learn to use tape drive self-identification to automatically configure tape drives in the Solaris OS.

 

SunSPOTs Go Open Source Recently Sun Microsystems announced that it would open source both the hardware and operating system for SunSPOTs, its sensor networking product based on Java technology.

 

OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 is Now Available! This is an x86-based LiveCD install image, containing some new and emerging OpenSolaris technologies and should be considered a developer preview only. For more details about the system requirements along with some basic user documentation refer to the OpenSolaris project resources page.

 

Student Developers Where can you find hot technologies, open-source communities, and job opportunities? Sun is looking for students who are ready to innovate and create the future. »More

 
 
 
 

Sorting Out Solaris Releases This brief Webcast will help you sort through the different versions of Solaris and help you understand which version will best suit your needs. The speakers also give you a sneak peak into Project Indiana -- the new open source binary distribution of OpenSolaris that combines the best of Linux with the unique features of the Solaris OS.

 

Tap into the Power of Network.com Network.com offers flexible access to the pay-per-use computing resources of Sun Grid Compute Utililty and its growing catalog of high-performance computing applications. You can use the Network.com platform to easily build, test and deploy your on-demand applications to anyone on the Internet. There is now a Sun Grid Plugin for NetBeans!

 

Happy 10th Anniversary, Tech Days Tech Days, which began from a night's brainstorming among Sun employees, is now bigger and better than ever as it celebrates the 10th year of its storied history.

 

NetBeans IDE Talk in Second Life The NetBeans team is putting out an invitation for Second Life users: "please join us in Sun's Developer Playground in Second Life on Thursday, January 31 at 10am PST as Brian Leonard and David Botterill, NetBeans Technology Evangelists, discuss NetBeans IDE 6.0. Learn how this latest release enables greater developer productivity with a faster, smarter editor, multi-language support, and a customizable IDE."

 

Tocarema Powers Up For its automated trading platform, startup Tocarema had an impressive list of requirements for its C/C++ toolchain. They turned to Sun Microsystems and its Sun Studio 12 software. See how they did it!

 

Create Your Own OpenSolaris IPS Repository in a Weekend Michal Pryc has created a terrific 6 part series. These presentations cover the process of building packages using Common Build Environment to sending your packages to the IPS repository.

 

Getting Started with Sun Studio For developers new to Sun Studio software, this guide provides an introduction to Sun Studio software, its features and usage.

 

SDN Channel Trying to find a broadcast you missed or would like to view again? Visit the SDN Channel for a listing of past episodes.

 

Setting up memcache on Solaris memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, intended for use in speeding up web applications. Find out how to set it up with Solaris Zones.

 

Tech Days Blogs Share the experience of being at an event, what technical information is covered, and explains how attendees are enjoying themselves.

 

Ask the Experts: Developing and Deploying Java SE-Based applications on Solaris (Jan. 21-25) Got a question about developing or deploying Java SE applications in the Solaris Operating System? Post your question during this Ask the Experts session and get answers from experts.

 

What We're Watching: Sumit Gupta on COMSTAR Join Sumit Gupta at SNIA SDC as he presents the new Common Multi-Protocol SCSI Target (COMSTAR) for Solaris.

 

New Solaris Application Programming Book! This brand new tome is a comprehensive guide to optimizing the performance of applications running on the Solaris operating system. It covers the fundamentals of system performance, using analysis and optimization tools to their fullest, and shows you how to get the most from Solaris systems and applications. It's available on Safari Online and for pre-order from Amazon.com.

 

New to Java Programming Center The New to Java Programming Center has been redesigned! Are you new to the Java platform? Find out how it helps you to set up your system, understand the various technologies, and create applications for the desktop, web, and devices.

 

CMS Development with Moodle on Solaris Moodle is a free, Open Source course management system used to create online learning communities. Here's a step-by-step tutorial on how the Sun Student Courses site was developed using Moodle 1.9, Sun Java System Web Server 7.0, PHP, MySQL, and Solaris 10.