OpenSolaris™ Operating System

Be brilliant faster

The open source community gives developers like you easy access to
the latest technologies, enabling you to create new services quickly.
But to leverage those technologies, you need a development environ-
ment that’s stable, consistent, and easy to install and use.

Based on Solaris™—an enterprise-class OS in the OpenSolaris community, working with

that’s the result of a $500 million research developers around the world who are contribut-
and development investment by Sun—the ing to the innovation, including thousands of
OpenSolaris OS offers free, built-in features Sun engineers.
Highlights that help you build, debug, and deploy new
• Open source innovation with applications faster. By offering developers advanced Solaris tech-
the assurance of proven, nology, access to the latest innovations from
extensive testing processes With new releases scheduled for every six the OpenSolaris community, innovations in
and worldwide support months, the OpenSolaris OS delivers the latest packaging, and the assurance of Sun’s proven,
• Familiar environment to GNU/ open source technologies in a development extensive testing processes and worldwide
Linux and UNIX developers and deployment environment that’s familiar support, OpenSolaris makes it faster and
• Easy to install and deploy to GNU/Linux and UNIX® users. It also provides easier than ever to produce optimized, high
• Network repository system for access to unique Solaris 10 OS features, such quality code.
greater control and flexibility as Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), Solaris Containers,
• OpenSolaris™ Image Packaging Predictive Self-Healing, and Solaris ZFS, plus Open source and Sun
System: easy access control to the latest innovations from the OpenSolaris As a worldwide leader in open source, Sun
applications; automatically community. has had engineers participating in open
addresses dependencies source communities and listening to what
• Supported on more than 1000 Between releases, the OpenSolaris Image customers want for years. In a report on
systems from a wide range of Packaging System provides necessary updates Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS)
vendors, including Sun, HP, from a wide range of Sun and other reposito- prepared for the European Commission in
IBM, Dell, and Fujitsu
ries. Developers can distribute your applica- 2006, Sun was found to have contributed
tions through your own package repository, substantiallymore code to a Linux distribu-
so you reach new markets quickly and offer tion than any other organization. Sun’s
updates easily. overall contribution was greater than that
of the next five contributors combined.
Because the OpenSolaris OS is supported
on more than 1000 platforms, it offers great In addition to OpenSolaris, Sun contributes
advantages in terms of flexibility and scalability. to a range of open source projects, including
Now you can take your ideas from experiment MySQL™, NetBeans™, GlassFish™, OpenOffice.
to global deployment without switching org™, OpenJDK™, java.net, and many others.
operating systems. And you can participate Developers and businesses can rely on Sun
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for an end-toend open source environment months will include tools to enable seamless Learn More
for development and deployment—all from updates to the OS. To learn more about the OpenSolaris
a single, trusted vendor. operating system, please visit
To make development more efficient and opensolaris.com
OpenSolaris OS release ensure faster, more consistent deployments, To join the OpenSolaris community,
Developers accustomed to other open source the OpenSolaris OS leverages key features of please visit opensolaris.org.
OS distributions will find OpenSolaris familiar Solaris that aren’t available in any other
You can download the
and easy to install. Plus, the OpenSolaris OS operating system, including: OpenSolaris operating system at
is a stable, supported platform that combines opensolaris.com/get
proven Solaris technologies with new, • Solaris ZFS.With Solaris ZFS snapshots, you
advanced features. can test your ideas and then roll back to
an earlier development point if a problem
The OpenSolaris OS is distributed as a much is discovered. (Solaris ZFS is the default are both free to acquire, and optional support
smaller install image than the Solaris 10 OS, file system for the OpenSolaris OS.) services are available for both—including
and it’s available on a single LiveCD that • DTrace. DTrace provides pervasive observ- robust developer support provided by a
includes the core OS—the kernel, system ability to accelerate application develop- world-class organization that stands behind
libraries, and system utilities. And the LiveCD’s ment and optimization of Apache/MySQL/ its open source products.
localized, graphical installer makes the installa- PHP (AMP) and MySQL/Apache/Ruby/
tion process familiar and intuitive. So with Solaris (MARS) stacks Sun offers two types of support for the
the OpenSolaris OS, you get the flexibility of • Solaris Containers. Solaris Containers OpenSolaris OS:
a Linux-like distribution and the advanced technology lets you simulate and debug • Essentials has a 48-hour email response
features that make the Solaris OS unique. distributed applications in multiple zones and provides the opportunity to report
and test multiple application server versions bugs and receive updates when available.
The LiveCD also enables you to try the OS before in identical environments, ensuring that • Production provides 24x7 phone support;
installation, and to select, install, and upgrade applications can be deployed on a wide the opportunity to report bugs, receive
additional components using the network- range of systems from single CPU through updates when available, and access future
based OpenSolaris Image Packaging System. multi-CPU multicore systems. premium network package repositories;
You can get it through the opensolaris.com • Predictive Self Healing. This unique and full escalation support.
Web site or peer-to-peer mechanisms such as feature automatically diagnoses, isolates,
BitTorrent. and aids in recovery from hardware and Both levels of support have an 18-month
application faults, enabling services to lifecycle, so you can innovate with the
Powerful features remain available in the face of catastrophic assurance of industry-leading support
The open source OpenSolaris OS contains component, software, or configuration through several scheduled upgrades of the
many new features not available in even the problems. OpenSolaris OS.
most current Solaris 10 updates, including
simplified installation; a familiar, easy-to- Support The OpenSolaris OS provides many third-party
update environment; and built-in tools that Unlike other freely licensed operating systems, applications as part of the default installa-
make it easier to develop and deploy applica- the Solaris support model doesn’t force you tion, available on the network package
tions that run on a wide range of systems. to choose between free and supportable repository. A full list of available software
The full upgrades planned for every six versions. Solaris and OpenSolaris OS releases can be viewed at pkg.opensolaris.org.

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