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 91-95
      3. Builds 86-90
      4. Builds 81-85
      5. Builds 76-80
      6. Builds 71-75
      7. Builds 66-70
      8. Builds 61-65
      9. Builds 56-60
      10. Builds 51-55
      11. Builds 46-50
      12. Builds 41-45
      13. Builds 36-40
      14. Builds 31-35
      15. Builds 26-30
      16. Builds 21-25
   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

mjnelson - Yesterday's Technology on Today's Hardware

Jul 3, 1:33 PM

I was recently playing with what I thought was a relatively modern system: I was installing OpenSolaris 2008.05 , using zfs root , onto a Sun Ultra 24 , and using it as a Xen dom0 to host both ...

Stephen Lau - busy busy busy

May 20, 9:55 PM

man, it’s been a hectic past week. i’ve been swamped at work with my usual stuff plus building a cool Shoutcast directory add-on for Songbird that i’m hoping will make it out wiht Songbird 0.6 in a ...

Stephen Lau - opensolaris jobs!

May 16, 11:18 PM

it’s nice to see the opensolaris-jobs list being used. jim put a link to all 3 jobs posted, hence my link to his blog post since i’m too lazy to copy and paste ‘em directly here. what jim didn’t ...

Stephen Lau - updated rtorrent & libtorrent packages for Solaris

May 8, 10:19 PM

was helping out a friend and updated my rtorrent/libtorrent packages for Solaris. as before, there are three packages, SFWsigc++, SFWtorrent, and SFWrtorrent. these install, per the companion CD ...

Stephen Lau - OpenSolaris build support landed in Songbird!

May 7, 4:47 PM

woot woot poot poot! preed just landed (here, and here) alfred’s last two remaining patches for bug 7800: Songbird would be even more cross-platform with OpenSolaris/Solaris support! so as of now, ...