Pro OpenSlaris: A New Open Source OS for Linux Developers and Adminstratos

The readership for this guide includes professional system administrators and developers of open source software environments based on Linux or Solaris. Readers should be familiar with the GNOME-based user environment found on most Linux distributions, as well as basic network tools for such systems. The guide is not a textbook on how to replace Windows with OpenSolaris; it covers only important concepts to help readers get started using OpenSolaris, demonstrated with detailed examples of OpenSolaris technologies. After background on the origins of OpenSolaris and a tour of the OpenSolaris environment, instructions are given for using the Service Management Facility, the ZFS file system, and virtualization. The book concludes with a list of books, blogs and wikis, developer and training resources, user groups, videos, web sites, and white papers. A companion web site contains source code. Foxwell is a system engineer and Christine is a software developer. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Harry Foxwell is a system engineer for Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc., specializing in operating system support (Solaris, OpenSolaris, and Linux). He is also an adjunct professor of computer science at George Mason University, where he has taught, among other classes, operating system courses based on OpenSolaris. He has also written several book reviews for ACM's Computing Reviews.