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What is the OpenSolaris Project? The OpenSolaris project is an open source community and a place for collaboration and conversation around OpenSolaris technology. The community represents a wide variety of people around the world, including developers adding functionality to the system or customizing the technology for new applications and platforms; system administrators implementing Solaris technology in data centers; educators and students researching operating systems in universities; and new users exploring the technology and discovering that OpenSolaris offers new opportunities. The OpenSolaris source code is already cutting edge, but innovation happens everywhere so we welcome your involvement. Here's what our community has to offer: Start by taking a look at our project overview and Roadmap. If you need help in getting OpenSolaris installed, see the resources on our Installing OpenSolaris page. (If you're looking for information about the Solaris Operating System, go over here). Join dozens of lively discussion forums for conversations on almost any topic. If you need help installing OpenSolaris, you can join our opensolaris-help forum. To keep abreast of what's happening in the community you may wish to subscribe to opensolaris-announce, or join the fray in opensolaris-discuss. You can also join the conversation via IRC on irc.freenode.net. Visit our Community Portal to learn all about how to get involved. Or check in on Nevada. Access our Projects Portal to explore active projects we're hosting. Download the source, BFU archives and tools you'll need. HTTP and Torrent downloads are offered. Explore the source using our "wicked fast" code browser, OpenGrok.

OpenSolaris Starter Kit The free (no shipping or handling fees) Starter Kit includes three OpenSolaris distributions and step-by-step instructions on how to install and boot.  » Request a DVD  » Order Status OpenSolaris Developer Summit The first OpenSolaris Developer Summit will be held at University of California, Santa Cruz, October 13-14 2007.  » View Information  » Register User Groups If you are new to OpenSolaris and are interested in participating in a user group, visit the User Group community. Squawk Chat about OpenSolaris using IRC at irc.freenode.net. Now featuring nine chat rooms. Buttons and Banners Get cool buttons and ribbons for your blog or website! By the Numbers Check out the community code contributions. Find community stats. Country Portals Visit our new country portals. Japan | China | France Poland | Brazil | India Spain | Germany | Mexico Russia Interested in helping to translate? Join the project. END HIDE -->

Announcements

Events

13 Oct 2007

OpenSolaris Developer Summit

News

Sun Solaris Express Developer 9/07 | Phoronix, Michael Larabel | 09/25/2007

The quarterly release of Solaris Express Developer Edition is now available for download. Among the new features in Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07 is a new Solaris installer, a GUI utility for DTrace with Sun Studio 12, and many updated packages. In this article ...there are screenshots from SXDE 9/07 as well as information on some of the other changes and our thoughts.

Emulex HBAs available through OpenSolaris project | Computer Technology Review | 09/20/2007

Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs (host bus adapters) have been accepted and made available within the OpenSolaris project.

Solaris Express Community Build 72 - Phoronix Review | Phoronix - GNU/Linux & Solaris Reviews | 09/10/2007

For those of you wanting to try out the latest and greatest in OpenSolaris software right now prior to the release of "Project Indiana", build 72 of Solaris Express Community Edition is now available.

Sun aims to push OpenSolaris into new markets | Ars Technica | 09/04/2007

Marc Hamilton, Sun's vice president of Solaris marketing, told ComputerWorld UK that Sun hopes to make OpenSolaris a real alternative to Linux, and expand adoption of the operating system in new markets, including the mobile and embedded space.

Sun eyes today's poor for tomorrow's growth | vnunet.com, Tom Sanders | 08/30/2007

Large urban centres targetted as hotbed for future services

Blogs

PotstickerGuru - Intel D201GLY mini-ITX - a Low Cost Solaris Solution

Sep 28, 8:37 PM

Another Low-Cost, Small-Footprint - Home/Office Computer Last week, in the midsts of rambling on about the issues in SXDE 9/07, I briefly mentioned that I had an Intel D201GLY mini-ITX board. The ...

atucker - Making code reviews less painful

Sep 28, 6:12 PM

One constant in large software development projects is code reviews - letting your peers look at what you've done to make sure you haven't missed anything. It's been called the last defense against ...

alanbur - The new opensolaris.org user management webapp moves into the light

Sep 28, 4:48 PM

As outlined here I've been working away on providing the infrastructure needed to break up the current monolithic J2EE application used to host opensolaris.org . I've just released the source code of ...

alanbur - Source code for the opensolaris.org portal released

Sep 28, 4:41 PM

After a long haul, I've finally released the source code of the J2EE web application that runs the opensolaris.org website. If you are interested, the source can be browsed online at: ...

gman - We have a Webapp!

Sep 28, 4:34 PM

Woke up this morning and saw two mails from Alan about open sourcing the portal that runs opensolaris.org - that is so unbelievably rocking. Congrats Alan! (Did anyone else notice the uncanny timing ...

Aaron Tersteeg (Intel) - AMT Commander - Live at Intel Developer Forum

Sep 28, 1:57 PM

 One of the highlight of attending the 2007 Intel Developer Forum was the chance to meet and get to know Yllian Saint-Hilaire share his passion and enthusiasm for Intel Active Management Technology. ...

Robert Ennals (Intel) - Server stability issues should be addressed soon...

Sep 28, 1:38 PM

It's always the simplest part of the system that fails. As the people who have been using Mash Maker will probably have noticed, the server has been going down a lot recently. We should hopefully ...

jriddell - Gutsy Beta, Tenerife and How Free Software Saved Akademy

Sep 28, 12:24 PM

Kubuntu Gutsy Beta is out. The upgrade from Feisty is under-tested so if you are running Feisty please follow the upgrade instructions and let me know how you get on. The other part which needs ...

bart coppens - Akademy 2008 will be in Belgium!

Sep 28, 11:08 AM

So, Akademy 2008 will be in Belgium ! Yay \o/ ! Some of you might have known this already if you'd have read the planet closely (troy leaked it already...), but still I'm terribly excited to be able ...

andresblog - lofi tests, where art thou?

Sep 28, 10:40 AM

One of the unwritten rules of test development is "don't reinvent the wheel". When you take on a project, it's tempting to start writing tests from scratch based on how you'd approach the problem. ...