OpenSolaris 2008.05 Use Archive

Install

• • Where to Start?
  This guide provides instructions for installing the OpenSolaris 2008.05 release. Click here to learn more.


• • Installing OpenSolaris 2008.05
  This release provides an initial installation of the OpenSolaris OS from the Live CD. An existing Solaris fdisk partition is overwritten during the initial installation. Click here to learn more.


• • Running OpenSolaris in VirtualBox
  The VirtualBox runs as an application in your operating system, providing an environment, called a virtual machine, which enables you to install other operating systems as “guests” inside the virtual machine. Click here to learn more.

Customize

• • Installing Developer Software
  This section provides information for users interested in downloading and installing software applications such as NetBeans and Sun Studio Express on their OpenSolaris 2008.05 system. The Setting up Your Development Environment document provides details on how to set up your OpenSolaris 2008.05 system for AMP (Apache, MySQL, Perl,PHP,Python), C, C++, and Ruby development. Click here to learn more.


• • Installing WebStack
  OpenSolaris 2008.05 release allows you to install Web Stack components individually. The following table lists the packages and command to install them. Click here to learn more.


• • Customizing WebStack Components
  After Initialization, you can customize several aspects of the Web Stack components. Click here to learn more.


• • Setting up AMP environment
  If you are an AMP developer, you can download the AMP cluster package, which is a super set of all individual AMP packages. Click here to learn more.


• • Getting NetBeans
  This section shows you how you can use NetBeans IDE to build web applications on OpenSolaris 2008.05 system using the Web Stack components available from the pkg repository. Before we dive into the details of these components, let us enumerate the stages involved in developing an end to end enterprise grade web application. What do you expect from an IDE if you are planning to use the IDE for web development? Click here to learn more.


• • Getting Sun Studio Express
  Sun Studio Express 5/08 delivers high-performance, optimizing C, C++, and Fortran compilers for the OpenSolaris 2008.05 release. Sun Studio's optimizing C, C++ and Fortran compilers, combined with NetBeans-based IDE delivers outstanding performance and productivity for single and multi-threaded application development. Click here to learn more.


• • Starting memcached
  This section describes how to start memcached. Click here to learn more.

Update

• • Getting Started with the Image Packaging System
  This section provides an overview of the Image Packaging System software (IPS). The OpenSolaris 2008.05 release uses IPS as its packaging system. Click here to learn more.


• • Upgrading and Managing Your Boot Environments
  The OpenSolaris 2008.05 release provides new and enhanced tools that enable you to upgrade a boot environment (BE) and to manage multiple boot environments. Click here to learn more.

Develop

• • WebStack Getting Started Guide
  Initializing the Development Environment
  
  Before you can use the Web application development environment, you must initialize the environment for your login. Every new user logged into the system must initialize their own environment. Click here to learn more.


• • Development Environment Guide
  This document shows you how you can set up your development environment for the OpenSolaris 2008.05 release, through additional software packages available in the official repository. Click here to learn more.