OpenSolaris

1. Community: Academic and Research
   1. Discussions
   2. No Cost Resources
   3. Leaders
   4. Observers
   5. Curriculum Development Resources
      1. General OpenSolaris Exam
      2. OpenSolaris Device Driver Exam
   6. Blogs
   7. Opensolaris Academic Programming Contest
      1. Google-Breakpad for Solaris
      2. Pinkfrog
      3. DTrace Gnome System Monitor
      4. Gear 1.0
      5. USBJS
      6. DTGraphics
      7. Graphical User Interface of Dynamic Tracing in Solaris
      8. Solarsword
      9. FuncViz
      10. Fastgrep
      11. STV
      12. SCCGnutellaSim
      13. PVFS Porting Project
      14. Xdown4scpc
      15. NTFS File System Reader
      16. OpenSolaris Programming Contest Proposal

OpenSolaris Community: Academic and Research

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Community Observers

• Google Summer of Code
  
• Mentoring
  
• Starter Kit
  
• User Groups - Campus Ambassadors
  

The OpenSolaris project presents new teaching, research, and learning opportunities using the OpenSolaris code base as a foundation. We'd like to invite you and other members of your institution to participate in the OpenSolaris community.

Get Involved

Forums

Participate is the discussion forums and collaborate with others in academia and research:

• education: discuss
• education: curriculum

Sun Campus Ambassadors

Learn about the Sun Campus Ambassador program. Does your school have a Sun Campus Ambassador?

Ideas

Here are some activities that Sun is ready to help you with:

• Host an OpenSolaris workshop on your campus
• Start an OpenSolaris user group
• Become an OpenSolaris Center of Excellence
• Collaborate with Sun to integrate OpenSolaris into your operating systems curriculum
• Sponsor an OpenSolaris development project
• Work with a mentor

If any of these appeal to you, or you have ideas for increasing the presence of the OpenSolaris community on your campus, join the discussion.

No Cost Resources

Curriculum

Blogs

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 ...

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 - 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 ...

Kristine Herd - Exciting New Event at the Solaris Campus in Second Life

Jun 18, 1:59 PM

Pro OpenSolaris Author Chat with Harry Foxwell Thursday, July 9th 9-10am SLT/PT (Second Life Time is the same as Pacific Time) Location: Sun Solaris Campus in Second Life (SLURL)  ...