OpenSolaris

1. Community: OS/Net (ON)
   1. Blogs
   2. Development Process
   3. Developer's Reference
      1. Introduction
      2. Prerequisites
      3. The Source Tree, part 1
      4. The Source Tree, part 2
      5. Building OpenSolaris
      6. Installing and Testing OpenSolaris
      7. Integration Procedure
      8. Best Practices and Requirements
      9. Glossary
   4. Discussions
   5. Installation (from source) Quickstart
      1. Annotated nightly(1) Mail Example
   6. Currently Known Issues
   7. CRT
      1. Advocates & Sponsors
      2. Becoming a CRT Advocate
      3. Charter
      4. RTI nits to avoid
      5. Sponsor Tasks
      6. Becoming a Sponsor
   8. Schedule
   9. ONNV Flag Days, Heads Ups, and Project Integration History
      1. All
      2. Builds 96-100
      3. Builds 91-95
      4. Builds 86-90
      5. Builds 81-85
      6. Builds 76-80
      7. Builds 71-75
      8. Builds 66-70
      9. Builds 61-65
      10. Builds 56-60
      11. Builds 51-55
      12. Builds 46-50
      13. Builds 41-45
      14. Builds 36-40
      15. Builds 31-35
      16. Builds 26-30
      17. Builds 21-25
      18. ONNV Flag Days, Heads-Ups and Project Integration History (snv_101 - snv_105)
   10. Leaders
   11. Observers
   12. Putback Logs
   13. Developing Solaris
       1. Quality Death Spiral
   14. wx
   15. findunref and unreferenced files
   16. Bourne/Korn Shell Coding Conventions

OpenSolaris Community: OS/Net (ON)

• CIFS client for Solaris
  
• Clearview: Network Interface Coherence
  
• Crossbow: Network Virtualization and Resource Control
  
• Cryptographic Framework
  
• DHCPv6 Client
  
• DTrace Provider for NFSv4
  
• Duckwater: Simplified name services management
  
• Enhanced SMF Profiles
  
• IPsec Tunnel Reform
  
• Key Management Framework
  
• Korn Shell 93 integration/migration project
  
• NFS Server in non-Global Zones
  
• Nemo: A Framework for High-Performance Networking
  
• Network Auto-Magic
  
• Nevada Globalization
  
• ON/Nevada (ONNV) Project
  
• Reno: Login Process Enhancements for Interop
  
• Resource Management
  
• SCM Migration Project
  
• Solaris iSCSI Target
  
• Sparks: name service switch/nscd enhancements
  
• Test Development
  
• Virtual Console
  
• ZFS on disk encryption support
  
• Zone Manager
  
• lofi compression & cryptography support
  

ON (pronounced "Oh En") is the common abbreviation for the OS/Net consolidation which delivers the core Operating System and Networking components to Solaris. It contains the source for the kernel and all platforms (on all architectures), the bulk of the drivers, filesystems, core libraries, and basic commands that you'd expect to find on a Solaris system.

This page is still a work in progress. We apologize for the lack of maintenance, but in our defense, we believe that the ON community is primarily served by its constituent projects. Questions and suggestions should be sent to gk at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com.

ONNV Information

• ON Build and WOS Delivery Schedule
• Flag Days, Heads-ups & Project Integration History
• Release Notes
• Putback logs

Tools

• bfu - Blindingly Fast Upgrade
• findunref - Find unreferenced files

Developer Reference

• Developing Solaris
• Energy Star Guidelines for Kernel Programmers - read when adding new kernel threads or changing CPR code
• How to create a package
• Cstyle Guide 62K, PDF or nroff source
• Shell Style Guide

Blogs

Stephen Lau - Songbird on OpenSolaris b99

Oct 15, 8:51 AM

Upon seeing comay’s tweet, I updated my OpenSolaris machine to the newly posted b99 packages and had the pleasure of typing: $ pfexec pkg install SUNWsongbird joyous day. This is our first ...

Stephen Lau - Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed?

Sep 25, 9:31 PM

… that provocative question is the title for InfoWorld’s latest article here. I saw the article come through on one of the lists I’m on, and well… it’s crap.. the author tries to pass it off as an ...

mjnelson - How much corn meal is too much?

Aug 26, 7:36 AM

...or should that read "mush?"  For the record, when the polenta recipe calls for one cup of corn meal and says it serves four, that's really four large, main-dish portions.  At the time, it seemed ...

Stephen Lau - OSCON Day 3

Jul 28, 10:03 PM

Day 3 (Friday) for me was … well… rough. I woke up feeling completely nauseous. Given that I had done a wee bit of drinking the night before, I was inclined to think it was alcohol-related. (Good ...

Stephen Lau - OSCON Day 2

Jul 28, 9:57 PM

Thursday was our second day in the booth. We had the usual booth traffic, answering lots of question re: Songbird, talking to folks who were pretty familiar with Songbird but were just waiting for a ...