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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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By Dan Wilhelm
Format:Paperback
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
By Paul Floyd
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
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
By Eric W
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
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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Open Solaris Bible
While most people would think that this book is no longer relevant, don't be to quick to think that way. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Steve
5.0 out of 5 stars
buy this book and save $1800.00!!!
oracle/sun charges $1800.00 for their instructor led course 'Getting Started With OpenSolaris'.
This book covers everything and more than that course! And it gets better.. Read more
This book covers everything and more than that course! And it gets better.. Read more
Published on August 30, 2010 by Karun Gahlawat
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book
Is incredible but this book is a better Solaris and OpenSolaris guide that the SUN's books, I recommend it like a reference book.
Published on July 5, 2010 by Julian Enrique Bolivar Galeno
5.0 out of 5 stars
An incredible book.
The book not only talk about desktop operations, it also talks about operating system internals, as well as many other topics really useful for a system administrator of FreeBSD... Read more
Published on December 15, 2009 by Manuel Trujillo Albarral
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent!!!
I totally agree with Dan, this is a great book that can be applied not only to Open Solaris but Solaris 10 as well. Read more
Published on October 23, 2009 by Reg
