Table of Contents

Getting Started.- Introducing OpenSolaris.- The Advantages of Developing with OpenSolaris.- Getting and Installing OpenSolaris.- A Familiar User and Developer Environment and More.- Working with OpenSolaris.- SMF: The Service Management Facility.- The ZFS File System.- OpenSolaris and Virtualization.- Exploiting OpenSolaris’s Unique Features.- A Development Environment on Opensolaris.- Innovative OpenSolaris Features.

About the Author

Harry Foxwell is a system engineer for Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc., specializing in operating system support (Solaris, OpenSolaris, and Linux). He is also an adjunct professor of computer science at George Mason University, where he has taught, among other classes, operating system courses based on OpenSolaris. He has also written several book reviews for ACM's Computing Reviews.