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Republic of the Philippines

Laguna State Polytechnic University

Siniloan Host Campus

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Group 2



Introduction

Special Feature Caiman Project

Desktop Features Server Features Storage Features

Virtualization

History



OpenSolaris is an open source computer operating system

based on Solaris created by Sun Microsystems, now a part

of Oracle Corporation. It is also the name of the project

initiated by Sun to build a developer and user communityaround the software.



OpenSolaris is a descendent of the UNIX System V

Release 4 (SVR4) codebase developed by Sun and AT&T

in the late 1980s. It is the only version of System V

available as open source. OpenSolaris is developed as a

combination of several software consolidations whichwere open sourced subsequent to Solaris 10. It includes a

variety of free software, including popular desktop and

server software. Sun has announced that future versions of

its commercial Solaris operating system will be based onthe OpenSolaris project.

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OpenSolaris is based on Solaris, which was originally

released by Sun in 1991. Solaris is a version of UNIX

System V Release 4 (SVR4), jointly developed by Sun and

AT&T to merge features from several existing Unixsystems. It was licensed by Sun from Novell to replace

SunOS.



Planning for OpenSolaris started in early 2004. A pilot

program was formed in September 2004 with 18 non-Sun

community members and ran for 9 months growing to 145

external participants. Sun submitted the CDDL (CommonDevelopment and Distribution License) to the OSI, which

approved it on January 14, 2005.



The first part of the Solaris code base to be open sourcedwas the Solaris Dynamic Tracing facility (commonly

known as DTrace), a tool that aids in the analysis,

debugging, and tuning of applications and systems. DTrace

was released under the CDDL on January 25, 2005 on the

newly launched opensolaris.org website. The bulk of the

Solaris system code was released on June 14, 2005. There

remains some system code that is not open sourced, and is

available only as pre-compiled binary files.



Initially, Sun's Solaris Express program provided a

distribution based on the OpenSolaris code in combination

with software found only in Solaris releases. The first

independent distribution was released on June 17, 2005,

and many others have emerged since.



On March 19, 2007, Sun announced that it had hired IanMurdock, founder of Debian, to head Project Indiana,[11]

an effort to produce a complete OpenSolaris distribution,

with GNOME and userland tools from GNU, plus a

network-based package management system. The new

distribution was planned to refresh the user experience,

and would become the successor to Solaris Express as the

basis for future releases of Solaris.

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On March 19, 2007, Sun announced that it had hired IanMurdock, founder of Debian, to head Project Indiana,[11]

an effort to produce a complete OpenSolaris distribution,

with GNOME and userland tools from GNU, plus a

network-based package management system. The new

distribution was planned to refresh the user experience,

and would become the successor to Solaris Express as the

basis for future releases of Solaris.







On May 5, 2008, OpenSolaris 2008.05 was released, in a

format that could be booted as a Live CD or installed

directly. It uses the GNOME desktop environment as the

primary user interface. The later OpenSolaris 2008.11release included a GUI for ZFS' snapshotting capabilities,

known as Time Slider, that provides functionality similar

to Mac OS X's Time Machine.



In December 2008 Sun Microsystems and ToshibaAmerica Information Systems announced plans to

distribute Toshiba laptops pre-installed with OpenSolaris.

On April 1, 2009, the Tecra M10 and Portégé R600 came

preinstalled with OpenSolaris 2008.11 release and several

supplemental software packages.



On June 1, 2009, OpenSolaris 2009.06 was released, with

support for the SPARC platform.

On January 13, 2010, Sun discontinued the Solaris Express program to focus on the OpenSolaris distribution.

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The OpenSolaris Caiman Project has been delivering

innovations in installation technology to OpenSolaris for

over a year. The effort will result in a completely rebuilt

installation experience for users, developers, and

administrators.



Three new Caiman features being developed include the

ability to create and distribute a customized x86 virtual

machine, support for creating auto install (AI) media that

can be booted directly to initiate an automated installation,

and support for a text installer.



The Virtual Machine Constructor project will design and

implement a constructor which will, in a 'hands-off'manner, generate a preconfigured and preinstalled virtual

machine. While we're primarily targeting VirtualBox for

the constructed image we should be able to support other

hypervisors that support the Open Virtual Machine Format

which is what we'll use for the constructed images. The

VM constructor essentially creates a new image type for

the Distribution Constructor to output in addition to thecurrent LiveCD and AI images.

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Caiman is the code name for the program, and set of

projects, to create a new Solaris installationexperience. The working ideas center on concepts such as:

•Updated, simplified and attractive graphical and text user

interfaces

•Integrated hardware compatibility testing

•Integrated live CD/DVD experience to provide a "try before you buy" capability



•Deep integration with the latest Solaris features, such as

ZFS and SMF

•Simplified system configuration, integrated with the post-

installation experience

•Simple, fast, and reliable installation of additional

software after installation

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Desktop Features

•Time Slider

•Package Manager

•Update Manager

•GNOME•Firefox

•Thunderbird

•OpenOffice.org

•VirtualBox

•Codeina

•Power Management

•Device Driver Utility

• Network Automagic•Sun Studio

• NetBeans IDE

•JavaFX

•Open Source Tools for the

Developer

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Server Features

•ZFS

• Networking

•Automated Install

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Distribution Constructor •Web Stack

•DTrace

•User and Process Rights

Management•Secure By Default

Networking

•Cryptographic Services and

Encrypted Communication

•Mandatory Access Control and

Labeling•Predictive Self Healing

•Solaris Containers

•Logical Domains

•xVM Hypervisor •Performance

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Storage Features

•File Services

•Storage Targets & Drivers

•Storage Management•Data Services

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Virtualization

•Solaris Containers

•Logical Domains

•xVM Hypervisor •VirtualBox

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