Solaris/OpenSolaris resources

Question

What are some good Solaris/OpenSolaris resources?

Please list them whether they are online/offline or free/for payment.

Answer 1

Ben Rockwood's blog - online & free

Sun BigAdmin - online & free, but may link to non-free Sun stuff

Answer 2

Blog O’ Matty

More than Solaris but I've found some real gems on his blog (like Oracle Sun cluster information).

Answer 3

Check out the LKSF book here.

The best way to learn is to dive in to it. Install OpenSolaris on a Vm and work away.

Answer 4

Although Solaris is dying somewhat in the hacker space, SunOS/Solaris used to be king of the hill in the unix hacker community. There is still a core of Solaris people on usenet and quite a body of online literature. Solaris is also a fairly mature, stable platform so much of the archived historical material is still relevant in a way that 10-year old docs on Linux might not be.

Answer 5

The Sun Freeware site: http://www.sunfreeware.com/ is indispensable and free.

Answer 6

• Getting started with OpenSolaris 2009.06 (free) provides an introduction to the OpenSolarisTM operating system, as well as instructions for installing and configuring the OpenSolaris release;
• OpenSolaris Bible (Amazon), sample chapters.

Answer 7

The opensolaris forums are a logical place to start if you have specific issues:
http://opensolaris.org/jive/index.jspa?categoryID=1
I often find useful stuff on blogs.sun.com, but it's not exclusively opensolaris of course.
The community documentation feels a bit dated in many places, but is still extremely useful.
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/