Thread: OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris is yet another project like BSD which is related to the Unix platform. It is based on Sun's Solaris operating system. Future Solaris releases will have technology from the OpenSolaris distribution. Like Gentoo, OpenSolaris has support for many other platforms such as SPARC and Xeon EM64T. Just like the compact Linux distributions such as Damn Small Linux, SLAX and Puppy Linux, there are also distributions extracted from OpenSolaris such as MilaX . Some of the other full-scale distributions are SchilliX, Nexenta and Belenix .

OpenSolaris uses the ZFS file system which was developed by Sun for the Solaris. It's a 128-bit file system which can store 18 billion billion times more data than 64-bit file systems.


Installation

Insert the OpenSolaris disc and boot into the interface. Double click the Install OpenSolaris icon to start the installation process. The screen after the Welcome screen is the partitioning screen.

You can select the Use the whole disk option to use the entire hard drive for the operating system. To create new partitions, click on the' first dropdown menu and enter a size for the partition.

In the next screen, enter your location, timezone, date and time. After that, select the language you want to use.

The screen after that is to enter the root password entry and the other user account. The next step displays an overview of all the settings. Click on Next to star the installation. At the end of the installation, click on Reboot. When OpenSolaris boots, enter the username and password and you're ready to go.