After a beginning overview of the history of OpenSolaris, its open–source licensing, and the community development model, this book then goes on to highlight the aspects of OpenSolaris that differ from more familiar operating systems. You’ll learn how to become a power user of OpenSolaris by maximizing the abilities of advanced features like Dtrace, the fault management architecture, ZFS, the service management facility, and Zones. Authors provide insider tips, unique tricks, and practical examples to help you stay sharp with the latest features of OpenSolaris.
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Master one of the most innovative new open source operating systems The latest version of OpenSolaris is here—and this comprehensive guide is your one–stop gateway to it all. You′ll start with a basic crash course in OpenSolaris, including command lines and shells, the GNOME Desktop, systems administration, and other essential topics. Later chapters focus on application development, networking, virtualization, DTrace, and other topics that will transform you into a power user. Find practical tips, step–by–step tutorials, and exact command lines and screenshots you can use right away. Explore the OpenSolaris operating environment—from GNOME® to the bash shell, vim text editor, and more Connect printers, USB devices, and other peripherals to your desktop Master systems administration, including ZFS and NFS file systems, networking, directory services, and security Observe and debug the system with the innovative Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) facility and other monitoring tools Share a single physical machine among multiple users and processes with xVM, VirtualBox, and other virtualization tools Deploy web services using Apache, Apache Tomcat, MySQL®, and other open source web stack applications Write and debug applications in C, C++, Java®, Ruby, Python®, and other languages
About the Author
Nicholas A. Solter is an engineer at Sun Microsystems and core contributor to the OpenSolaris HA Clubsters community group. He is lead author of Professional C++ . Gerald Jelinek is an engineer on the Zones team at Sun and a core contributor to the OpenSolaris Zones community group. David Miner is an engineer at Sun, a co–lead for the OpenSolaris distribution, and architect of the Caiman installer.
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I don't suppose many people will start using OpenSolaris as total novices so this book concentrates on the specific stuff such as zones, zfs, dtrace and vbox. IMHO it is very well written and has seemed to keep fairly upto date with what is a fast moving target. If you want a book which covers OpenSolaris and all it's features quite simply this is the book for you.
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Book arrived within the proposed delivery period. Technical contents very useful and met expectations
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Outstanding clarity and content!
26 Mar 2009
By Dan Wilhelm
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This book is written so well that the knowledge simply jumps from the pages and into your brain (well, at least for me). The breadth and detail of this book totally justifies its size. There is no "filler" here.The icon message inserts (NOTE, TIP, CAUTION, CROSS-REF) are extremely informative and helpful.
As an added bonus, many of the topics presented in this book also apply to Solaris 10 (but definitely NOT package management). As an experienced Sun/Solaris system administrator, I fully recommend the "OpenSolaris Bible" to any admin or developer interested in OpenSolaris or Solaris 10.
I thank the authors for writing such a marvelous book..
As an added bonus, many of the topics presented in this book also apply to Solaris 10 (but definitely NOT package management). As an experienced Sun/Solaris system administrator, I fully recommend the "OpenSolaris Bible" to any admin or developer interested in OpenSolaris or Solaris 10.
I thank the authors for writing such a marvelous book..
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Impressive
2 Jun 2009
By Paul Floyd
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I'm writing this as a long time Solaris user, and I've dabbled a bit with OpenSolaris OS and SXCE as well.
I must say that I was impressed. The coverage is very extensive, and to a good depth. All of the major topics get covered: ZFS, DTrace, zones, xVM, SMF.
I must say that I was impressed. The coverage is very extensive, and to a good depth. All of the major topics get covered: ZFS, DTrace, zones, xVM, SMF.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Beyond excellent resource
3 Jun 2009
By Eric W
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The OpenSolaris Bible is an excellent resource, beyond excellent. It caters to all levels, from "beginner to advanced", just as it says on the (back) cover. Few books are as versatile. You can pick this up, having no or only limited knowledge of Unix systems, you can be an expert with another Unix flavor, or you might even be a Solaris administrator looking to become aquainted with some of the newer features.
I'm not new to Unix-type operating systems, I've been working on Unix systems for over 13 years. I am an expert with Linux, proficient with *BSD systems, and have varied experience with Irix and HPUX, but have rarely had the chance to work on Solaris. With all of the wonderful features introduced with OpenSolaris in the past couple years, I've taken another look at this great operating system and have used the OpenSolaris Bible as my guide.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking to run or administrate OpenSolaris, and I would certainly recommend OpenSolaris itself.
My only complaint might be that this book will probably become outdated very quickly, due to the impressive rate at which OpenSolaris is being developed. In fact, just yesterday, a new version of OpenSolaris was released, introducing features not present or discussed in this book. However, this is currently the most updated printed material available today, so you really can't go wrong.
I'm not new to Unix-type operating systems, I've been working on Unix systems for over 13 years. I am an expert with Linux, proficient with *BSD systems, and have varied experience with Irix and HPUX, but have rarely had the chance to work on Solaris. With all of the wonderful features introduced with OpenSolaris in the past couple years, I've taken another look at this great operating system and have used the OpenSolaris Bible as my guide.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking to run or administrate OpenSolaris, and I would certainly recommend OpenSolaris itself.
My only complaint might be that this book will probably become outdated very quickly, due to the impressive rate at which OpenSolaris is being developed. In fact, just yesterday, a new version of OpenSolaris was released, introducing features not present or discussed in this book. However, this is currently the most updated printed material available today, so you really can't go wrong.
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