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These articles, all written within the OpenSolaris Pilot Program, are about the community and the technology. We are working on developing a community submission process so that community members can work on and submit articles as well.

Getting Started with OpenSolaris using VMWare

February 27, 2006

This article takes you through the steps to get OpenSolaris up and running on VMware and assumes that you are new to VMware and OpenSolaris.

A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernels

October 14, 2005

This article examines three of the basic subsystems of the kernel and compares implementation between Solaris 10, Linux 2.6, and FreeBSD 5.3.

Solaris for x86 Notebooks

July 1, 2005

Solaris-based notebooks have mostly been SPARC-based. For example, Sun's own SPARCbook ran Solaris 2 a decade ago. There were also early portables from Tadpole Computer. Given the price of SPARC-based notebooks--Tadpole's current SPARC-based notebooks are around $3,000, for example--x86/x64 notebooks make tempting alternatives. Bargain Intel/AMD-based notebooks sometimes edge down to the $500 mark, with desktop-equivalent power in the $1,000 or so range. The x86 notebook market also includes ultralights in the four, three and two pound range, and a handful of shirt-pocket-sized machines--and a lot of Solaris users already have x86 notebooks. But x86-based notebook computers have historically been mostly creatures of DOS and Windows, especially in terms of pre-installed OSes. True, there's still information around on installing OS/2 and *BSDs, but, for whatever reason, Solaris hasn't had a visible presence in the x86/x64 notebook world ... so far.

Profile: The Team Behind DTrace

June 10, 2005

One of the most powerful and eagerly anticipated features of Solaris 10 is DTrace. It's useful for administrators and developers to profile and debug applications. The DTrace team is Bryan Cantrill, Adam Leventhal, and Mike Shapiro Recently, OpenSolaris.org interviewed the team about DTrace, its history, and its future.

Profile: Andy Tucker

June 1, 2005

Andy Tucker has worked on the Solaris platform for practically his entire professional life, joining Sun immediately after completing graduate school at Stanford ten years ago. For most of that time, he's tinkered in one way or another with the deep dark internals of the Solaris kernel, finally becoming a distinguished engineer in the Solaris Kernel and Data Services group. Though Tucker has now moved on to become a Principal Engineer at VMware, he recently took some time to talk to OpenSolaris.org about the history and future of Solaris, as well as how a new technology called Solaris Zones may significantly change the way some people use Solaris servers.