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Angad Singh
Sun Campus Ambassador, JIITU
blogs.sun.com/angad
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“Open source is
about community,
not economy,
not hype, not ...”
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What is OpenSolaris ?
OpenSoaris was founded as an Open Source project by
Sun Microsystems in June of 2005, and originally created
as a clearing house for releasing CDDL licensed Solaris
code for others (such as Nexenta and Sine Nomine) to
produce Solaris-compatible operating systems
Fact: OpenSolaris is the first and only System V-based
UNIX to have been released into Open Source.
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History
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Solaris is a proprietary UNIX system by Sun
Microsystems.
Widely regarded for it's stability
Bulk of kernel open-sourced in June 2005
under the CDDL license as OpenSolaris
Opensolaris :: Linux+GNU
Code available at opensolaris.org
Extreme innovation.
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The History of Solaris
Two decades of Innovation
VFS and Vnode
framework.
NFS
implemented
First version of
Sun Unix based
on 4 BSD.
New VMS
Dynamic linking
First Sparc
Support i386
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Sun Unix 0.7 Sun OS 1.0 Sun OS 2.0
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1983
Large file
support
Ported to
x86
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Solaris 2.0
1992
4 way
SMP
Solaris 2.1
1992
Solaris 2.2
1993
Sun OS 4.1
1990
1988
SunOS+BSD+SVR3 + Xenix = SVR4
Solaris
was born.
Sun OS 4.0
OpenWindow
graphics
Environment
Assymetric
Multiprocessing
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SVR4 + Multiprocessor scalability = Solaris
20-way SMP 64-way SMP
Slab allocator
Large page
8-way SMP
support
Cachefs
Device power
Doors
CDE
management environment
NFSv3
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Solaris 2.3
1993
Solaris 2.4
1994
Solaris 2.5
1995
Dynamic
processor sets
Dynamic
reconfiguration
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Solaris 2.6
1996
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What is OpenSolaris ?
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Its the Solaris codebase. Its a Community. It is
our project website !
Celebrated its First Birthday on June 14th
2006
24 years of UNIX development is now free
and open.
An attempt to allow non-Sun developers to
participate in the Solaris community
Expand the Solaris Ecosystem
All future versions of Solaris are based on this
codebase.
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OpenSolaris at the center
Trusted Solaris
Sun's Supported Solaris
Products and Updates
ZFS port: FUSE/Linux
Sun's Solaris Express CR
Solaris Express
marTux Distribution
DTrace port: FreeBSD
ZFS port: DragonFly BSD
Nevada Source Gate
BeleniX
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Open Solaris and GNU/Linux
Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, ...
GNOME
X Window System
UNIX utilities
GNU utilities
POSIX+ extensions
System libraries
Linux kernel
POSIX
Solaris kernel
Hardware
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Why Open Solaris?
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It's technologies!
ZFS
Dtrace
Zones
Binary compatibility guarantee
.. and a lot more coming
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Why OpenSolaris: ZFS
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Moore's law
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need 65th bit in 10-15 years (1PB = 50 bits)
128 bit – the last word in file systems
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file size: up to 16 × 10³ PetaByte
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pool size: up to 3 × 10²³ PetaByte
ZFS takes care of
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endianess & encryption
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compression
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data corruption
Web : http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/
Online Demo : http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/demos/
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Why OpenSolaris: DTrace
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DTrace is a dynamic troubleshooting and analysis tool first
introduced in the Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris operating
systems.
DTrace is many things, in particular:
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A tool
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A programming language interpreter
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An instrumentation framework
DTrace provides observability across the entire software stack
from one tool. This allows you to examine software execution
like never before.
Available on OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, Mac OSX, FreeBSD
Web : http://opensolaris.org/os/community/dtrace/
Examples, Documentation and Technical Articles at the above URL
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Trace your software on a live production
system
Thousands of probes
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Monitor file system access
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Monitor system calls
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Monitor memory usage
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Monitor everything
Place blame where it belongs
Ported to FreeBSD, OS X
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Why OpenSolaris: Zones
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Virtualize OS service that emulate an
OS instance
Isolates applications from each other
Improve security by intrusion-isolation
Boot and bring down zones
independent of the OS instance
Compatible with existing applications
Almost arbitrary granularity in isolating
and sharing resources
Web: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/
Examples, Documentation and Technical Articles at the above URL
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Built-in virtualization
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Consolidate your servers
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Sandboxed application environments
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Dynamic resource
reallocation
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Who is Using Solaris 10 Today?
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10 of the top 11 Retailers
5 of the top 5 Petro companies
5 of the top 5 Manufacturing companies
7 of the top 8 Financial Services companies
3 of the top 3 Shipping companies
5 of the top 5 IT companies
5 of the top 5 Insurance companies
5 of the top 5 Food/Beverage companies
6 of the top 6 Healthcare/Pharmaceutical companies
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What can I do on Open Solaris?
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And..
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The Distributions
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Sun sponsored
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Solaris 10
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Solaris Express Community Edition
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Solairs Express Developer Edition
months)
(every fortnight)
(every 3
Community
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BeleniX (LiveCD x86)
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Nexenta (GNU/Opensolaris)
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Martux (Sparc LiveCD)
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Schillix, Milax !
Project Indiana!
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Project Indiana
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What are the community issues ?
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opensolaris.org grew up around the
source, and engaging developers
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Not necessarily a good showcase for
OpenSolaris technology
 Poor download experience
 Little user community growth
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What are the technology issues ?
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High adoption barriers
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Install, Packaging, Hardware
Media size has grown too large to reach
important markets
No clear binary technology base to work
from
No formal roadmap or public process for
SXCE/SXDE
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Project Indiana
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.. is what everyone is talking about in
OpenSolaris land.
Is the promising new OpenSolaris binary
distribution
Lead by Ian Murdock: The 'Ian' in Debian.
What's a Linux guy doing in OpenSolaris?
Pre release in Oct 2007, first release on May
5th 2008.
Great new features you always wanted in
Solaris.
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Project Indiana
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OpenSolaris reference binary distribution
SUN and Community jointly built
Single CD install and network package
repository
100% re-distributable
LiveCD/DVD functionality
ZFS as default file-system
More intuitive update experience with ZFS
rollback functionality
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Major Indiana Technologies
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LiveCD/DVD/USB Infrastructure derived
mostly from BeleniX – Slim Install
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OpenSolaris uses GRUB and is multiboot aware
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OpenSolaris also uses an Initial Ramdisk
New Packaging
Distribution Constructor
 Simply
select packages from repository
 Customize look and feel
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Modern Simple Installer
Live Upgrade Mechanism
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Why should I Care ?
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<showoff>
Be Proud of being an OpenSolaris hacker !
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Observability
Understand what your OS does.
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Better than a Text Book
The guy who wrote your OS text book is a hardcore
Solaris fan!
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Direct Access to the Experts !
Talk to the guy designed and wrote the best FS in the
world !
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OpenSolaris 2008.05 !
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What is OpenSolaris 2008.05?
OpenSolaris 2008.05 is the first official release in a new
binary distribution based on the OpenSolaris operating
system.
It’s the first Opensolaris operating system that’s fully
supported by Sun
It is Sun’s equivalent to Red Hat’s Fedora or Novell’s
OpenSUSE.. or Ubuntu's Ubuntu!
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An all new beginning for the Solaris operating system!
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"OpenSolaris is a massive advancement for OS
development and deployment. It combines the strong
foundation of Solaris technologies and tools with
modern desktop features and applications developed
by open source communities such as GNOME, Mozilla
and the Free Software Foundation," said Stephen Lau,
OpenSolaris Governing Board member.
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Features of OpenSolaris 2008.05
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“SlimInstall” LiveCD !
Brand new Image Packaging System (IPS)
Improved Caiman installer
GNOME 2.22 interface, the very same that powers
Ubuntu Hardy Heron’s.
Many new applets / configuration UI's
It is the first OS to feature ZFS as its default file system
ZFS, Zones, Dtrace, Sun XvM enabled
The version of DTrace comes with a graphical user
interface called Dlight.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Availability
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OpenSolaris structure
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Uses GRUB as the bootloader
Uses ZFS as the filesystem of choice
OpenSolaris requires a primary partition. Extended
support soon.
The GNOME Desktop Enviornment
Compiz for 3D Goodness :)
 Preferences > Appearance > Visual effects
Minimum requirements:
 Intel x86 Platform
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512 Mb Ram
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Image Packaging System (IPS)
A network-based, network-aware packaging system
with full dependency-checking capabilities!
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Simple commands to
manage packages:
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pkg install <package>
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pkg uninstall <package>
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Etc.
Simple Gui available.
3rd-party IPS repositories such as Sunfreeware
and BlastWave are sprouting up
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Installing Opensolaris
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Get it from http://www.opensolaris.com
Easy to Install
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Installation
Demo
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Get OpenSolaris 2008.05 !
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Request a Free 2008.05 CD !
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Participate
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http://www.opensolaris.org
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Mailing lists (Chat with Operating Systems experts)
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Ongoing projects
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Bugs reports/ RFEs
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User groups
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Blogs
Ask that question
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irc.freenode.net
channel: #opensolaris
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Where to go for help?
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Stuck on the build? (you read the README, right?)
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Questions about the code or found a bug?
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Ask on [email protected]
Got a fix for a bug?
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Ask on [email protected]
Request a sponsor on [email protected]
Solaris is the sux0r! Linux rulez!
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Flame and debate on [email protected]
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Angad Singh
Sun Campus Ambassador, JIITU
blogs.sun.com/angad