Documentation of Open Solaris

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Open Solaris Operating System

OpenSolaris is an open source operating system based on Sun Microsystems Solaris. It is also the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around it. OpenSolaris is derived from the Unix System V Release 4 codebase, with significant modifications made by Sun since it bought the rights to that code in 1994. It is the only open source System V derivative available. Open sourced components are snapshots of the latest Solaris release under development. Sun has announced that future versions of its commercial Solaris operating system will be based on technology from the OpenSolaris project.

OS family	Unix-like
Source model	Open source
Initial release	2008-05-05
Latest stable release	2009.06 / 2009-06-01; 4 months ago
Supported platforms	SPARC, IA-32, x86-64, PowerPC (under development), System z on z/VM (under development), ARM (under development)
Kernel type	Monolithic
Default user interface	GNOME
License	Mostly CDDL with proprietary components
Website	www.opensolaris.com

Installation Process

In this installation we use Live CD. First, Insert the OpenSolaris 2008.11 CD into CD / DVD room. Select the top option to install OpenSolaris in a desktop mode and press "Enter" to speed up booting.

In the keyboard layout selection, press "Enter"  or type number 41 to select the default keyboard layout for US-English.

On the choice of desktop language press "Enter" or type the number 6 to select the default language English. To select Indonesian, press the number 12 and then press "Enter".

Wait a few minutes until the OpenSolaris desktop display appears as shown below.

Click the Install OpenSolaris available on the desktop, so the new window appears. Then click "Next".

Determine the disk partition to install OpenSolaris, and then click "Next".

Set Time Zone, Date and Time. After that click "Next". Choose your language support, select English.

Specify username and password for a normal user, root password, and computer name.

Final review before the installation process. If there is something wrong, you can press Back to rearrange, if it is believed correct, click Install and wait a few minutes up to 100%.

The installation has been completed and click Reboot to restart.
Initial display when booting.

Enter the username that was made at the beginning of the installation. Suppose it username: andry and enter the password of the user andry.

OpenSolaris desktop after login.

BOOTLOADER
List active GRUB menu

Entry autoboot setting to 5-second timeout 

The default setting for Solaris operating system load, entry number = 1

Then setting up again to load the default Solaris operating system, entry number = 0

Packages Installation

• download package  
• gunzip, bunzip2                                                                                                                                     When we will do the installation software package with an gz or bzip2, then we can use the command gunzip or bunzip2 to uncompress the packages.
  # bunzip2 CSKmemcached_1.3.1_i386.pkg.bz2
  # gunzip gcc-3.4.6-sol10-x86-local.gz
• pkgadd                                                                                                                                                             Serves to transfer packages to the system / to install a software. Suppose the two above packages we've uncompress, then for the installation do the following:                 # pkgadd -d gcc-3.4.6-sol10-x86-local or
  # pkgadd -d CSKmemcached_1.3.1_i386.pkg
  Without the -d option, pkgadd will then read the package in /var/spool/pkg

XWINDOW

Comparison	GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment)	KDE (Kool Desktop Environment)	CDE (Common Desktop Environment)
Required RAM	384 MB	512 MB	64 MB
Interface	User Friendly	Simple	easy to use
Supporting Operating Environments	Cross-platform  (GNU, Linux, BSD,Solaris)	GNU/Linux and Unix, including HP, IBM, Mandriva, Novell, Red Hat, and Sun, Mac OS X	AIX (IBM),Solaris 8, 7, and 2.6, IRIX , Digital UNIX / Tru64 UNIX, HP-UX, OpenVMS, UnixWare .