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. What you'll learn Discover the
secrets of the ZFS, the most powerful file system ever conceived
Explore OpenSolaris AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) and GlassFish in the
context of Web 2.0 and Linux/Solaris, respectively Familiarize
yourself with the new security administration features of
OpenSolaris, including changes in DTrace Who this book is for
Linux system administrators and programmers who would like to
know what they have missed since Solaris became an open-source
operating system.
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