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OpenSolaris is an open source project created by Sun Microsystems to build a developer community around Solaris technology. It is aimed at developers, system administrators and users who want to develop and improve operating systems. As of June 2007, more than 60,000 community members are registered on opensolaris.org with around 2,000 members being employed by Sun Microsystems. An active OpenSolaris User Group is now growing worldwide, and dozens of OpenSolaris technology communities and projects are being opened on opensolaris.org.

OpenSolaris is derived from the Unix System V Release 4 codebase, and has significant modifications made by Sun since it bought the rights to the codebase in 1994. It is the only open source System V derivative available. Open sourced components are snapshots of the latest Solaris release under development. Future versions of Solaris will be based on technology from the OpenSolaris project

This tutorial will show you step by step how to do the installation of open solaris. sun has made installing open solaris very easy.

Download a copy of open solaris at http://www.opensolaris.com/
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In this tutorial we look at ZFS filesystem management, including creating new filesystems, destroying them and adjusting their properties.

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ZFS is an open source filesystem used in Solaris 10, with growing support from other operating systems. This series of tutorials shows you how to use ZFS with simple hands-on examples that require a minimum of resources.

In this tutorial I hope to give you a brief overview of ZFS and show you how to manage ZFS pools, the foundation of ZFS. In subsequent parts will we look at ZFS filesystems in more depth.

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Today I decided to install Glassfish on my Ubuntu 7.10 box. It had come to my attention that Glassfish was a standard package for Ubuntu, so I started the package manager and checked Glassfish for installation. All went well until I found out Glassfish 1 was just installed.
Bummer. I had assumed version 2 was packaged. I undid the installation together with the dependencies.
I don’t really like installing Linux software without the standard package manager, but I decided to make an exception for Glassfish. Below I describe my findings.
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As I have seen heaps of topics now in regards USB and different problems, I deceided to post my solution which I have created doing a lot of reading through the all loved www.

It is now all working fine for me and I have experienced all problems, a lot of you guys have or had.
USB not there, USB greyed out, only working without USB 2.0 etc.This would be basically just a summarize of a few topics out of this forum. Please note, I don’t wont credit at all, as this is nothing else then a collection of different information I found.

The running host is Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) with a Windows XP SP2 guest. After successful installation I installed the client extensions to get the shared folders and a few other nice things running. USB turned out to be a bit of a pain.

Source

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