OpenSolaris

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On Friday, August 13th, 2010, a memo that stated that Oracle had decided to close down the OpenSolaris project leaked out. [1]

Wikipedia description

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris is based on Solaris, which was originally released by Sun in 1991. Solaris is a version of UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4), jointly developed by Sun and AT&T to merge features from several existing Unix systems. It was licensed by Sun from Novell to replace SunOS.

Official Resources

• http://www.opensolaris.org - OpenSolaris home
• http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/ - OpenSolaris documentation
• http://www.genunix.org/ - Latest Stable and Development Download Links

Helpful Threads

• Advice pls : BYO Home NAS for Media and backup images etc
• How to completely over-do your home fileserver.
• OpenSolaris & SMB - setting account permissions

Helpful Sites

• http://breden.org.uk/2008/05/16/home-fileserver-drive-temps/
• Setting up smartmontools on OpenSolaris
• Setting Up An OpenSolaris NAS Box: Father-Son Bonding - a very simple/easy guide..but was all I needed to get a ZFS server up and running.
• A Home Fileserver using ZFS - A comprehensive guide to building an opensolaris nas. Highly recommend this one.
• ZFS Tutorial Part 1
• Setting up a static network configuration with NWAM
• How do you configure OpenSolaris to automatically login a user?
• How to Set Up Samba in the OpenSolaris 2009.06 Release - Information Resources - wikis.sun.com
• Getting Started With the Solaris CIFS Service
• Mount NTFS / Ext2 / Ext3 / FAT 16 / FAT 32 in Solaris
• Mount NTFS / Ext2 / Ext3 / FAT 16 / FAT 32 in Solaris - note 2G limit.
• Seven Useful OpenSolaris ZFS Home Server/NAS Tips