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This site supports the activities of the OpenSolaris documentation community. Here, you can find information about how to participate in this community and how to access OpenSolaris open source, redistributable documentation. You can also find information on how to set up and develop on OpenSolaris. (This information may be under development and may eventually find its way into the official product documentation that supports the OpenSolaris binary release.)

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Blogs

geertjan - Why Grails Users Will Like NetBeans IDE 6.7 Even More Than NetBeans IDE 6.5

Jul 1, 1:00 PM

Brian Leonard - Codeina

Jul 1, 10:07 AM

Codeina's a nifty little feature of OpenSolaris 2009.06. It's an application from Fluendo that points applications such as Totem or Rhythmbox to Fluendo's web shop if you are missing the codec for ...

Terry Gibson - Another Acquisition Loose End: Closing Out Wrapped Contracts

Jul 1, 7:52 AM

geertjan - Three NetBeans Platform Applications You Never Knew Existed

Jun 30, 2:28 PM

Brian Leonard - Mounting ext2 and ext3

Jun 30, 1:41 PM

I just returned from the FISL conference in Porto Alegre Brazil. Although all of Sun's free software was represented, OpenSolaris was the star attraction at the show. Throughout the week we hosted an ...

Brian Leonard - Just enough Web Space Server

Jun 30, 12:13 PM

I was poking around with the Just enough Operation System (JeOS) distribution of OpenSolaris , when I found the Web Space Server project built on top of that platform. The Web Space Server project is ...

Brian Leonard - Fun with Crossbow

Jun 29, 6:02 PM

The Crossbow project is probably the most exciting new feature in OpenSolaris 2009.06. It a nutshell, project Crossbow brings virtualization to the networking layer. In this quick example I'm going ...

geertjan - Back from Brazil: Hello NetBeans IDE 6.7

Jun 29, 10:17 AM

rchrd - Field Day This Weekend

Jun 25, 5:31 PM

Nik Maslov - Managing ZFS snapshots in OpenSolaris 2009.06

Jun 24, 12:17 AM

Since Time Slider is very handy tool, utilizing zfs snapshots, some tuning is necessary, to adjust it to your needs. I found this very nice article here . I really advice you to check this out - it ...

geertjan - Kafka at the Airport: Why Online Check-in is a Myth

Jun 23, 7:41 AM

rchrd - Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Released!

Jun 22, 3:09 PM

geertjan - Developing for Google App Engine in NetBeans IDE

Jun 22, 2:04 AM

Nik Maslov - rTorrent in OpenSolaris 2009.06

Jun 21, 2:36 AM

I love rogue-like interfaced programs. And I like torrents. No this torrent program in OS2009.06? Let`s use rtorrent then. Packages could be downloaded from this guy`s blog. Then, you`ll need few ...

geertjan - NetBeans Client for Bugzilla Issue Tracking

Jun 19, 8:12 AM

I added some issues to the NetBeans MigLayout project today, using NetBeans IDE: Then I went to the site on-line and saw that everything had been done as I'd have expected it to: Pretty handy, being ...

Brian Leonard - Learning On Demand Service

Jun 18, 3:41 PM

Yet another way to try OpenSolaris - this time on demand. Sun Learning Services has a program (in beta) where you can launch an instance of OpenSolaris from your browser. Most of you reading this ...

alaninsj - Printing to a Wifi Printer with OpenSolaris

Jun 18, 1:26 PM

I finally took the time to figure out how to be able to print from my OpenSolaris laptop to our HP 6450 wifi printer across the room without having to stretch a USB cord and move my laptop. I kept ...

geertjan - Me at FISL

Jun 18, 11:34 AM

I'm going to be at FISL in Brazil next week: Hope to see you there!

Alan McClellan - Interesting article

Jun 18, 9:52 AM

Here's interesting speculation about future use of Sun technology and their role in the enterprise: Forbes article

Brian Leonard - TrueType Fonts

Jun 17, 8:22 AM

As a user of OpenSolaris you may be wondering why it's missing all the popular fonts such as Arial , Times New Roman and the ever popular Wingdings . The license for these fonts prohibit their ...