Pro OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris is the operating system that is the most technically advanced of all Unix installations, and it is the number one choice for many decision makers. This book provides the professional keys to this powerful Unix distribution.

OpenSolaris is a rapidly evolving operating system with roots in Solaris 10, suitable for deployment on laptops, desktop workstations, storage appliances, and data center servers from the smallest singlepurpose systems to the largest enterpriseclass systems. The growing OpenSolaris community now has hundreds of thousands of participants and users in government agencies, commercial businesses, and universities, with more than 100 user groups around the world contributing to the use and advancement of OpenSolaris. New releases of OpenSolaris become available every six months, with contributions from both Sun engineers and OpenSolaris community members; this book covers the OpenSolaris 2008.11 release.

Pro OpenSolaris was written to demonstrate that you can host your open source applications and solutions on OpenSolaris, taking advantage of its advanced features such as containers and other forms of virtualization, the ZFS file system, and DTrace. It's assumed that you are already fairly knowledgeable about developing on Linux systems, so the authors give an overview of the similarities and differences between Linux and OpenSolaris, and then present details on how to use the Service Management Facility (SMF), ZFS, zones, and even a bit of DTrace. They also provide pointers to the many project communities associated with new OpenSolaris features. Special focus is given to web development using familiar applications such as Apache, Tomcat, and MySQL, along with the NetBeans IDE, and showing you how to exploit some of OpenSolaris's unique technologies.

OpenSolaris is coming into its own in 2009 as the most advanced Unix installation, and becoming the number one choice in the Enterprise A Pro book from Apress that is designed to appeal to anyone working in a professional position with OpenSolaris, or who hopes to do so in 2009

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
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.