What’s new in OpenSolaris ? Roman Strobl OpenSolaris Evangelist

pg 2 Agenda What is OpenSolaris? OpenSolaris vs. Solaris What makes OpenSolaris interesting? New features in Conclusion

pg 3 What is OpenSolaris? New operating system distribution, based on source code of Solaris Releases: and Open source Free to use and deploy Supported by Sun

pg 4 Agenda What is OpenSolaris? OpenSolaris vs. Solaris What makes OpenSolaris interesting? New features in Conclusion

Solaris vs. OpenSolaris* * Other Sun & community distributions are also available!

pg 7 Agenda What is OpenSolaris? OpenSolaris vs. Solaris What makes OpenSolaris interesting? New features in Conclusion

Advantages – in General ZFS – revolutionary file system DTrace – dynamic tracing Scalability, reliability, observability Security (incl. trusted extensions) Compatibility guarantee (stable API) Quote: “Linux feels like it has been written, Solaris like it has been designed” Free & open source, but supported

What is ZFS? ZFS = Zettabyte file system Zetta = First 128-bit file system Capacity: 256 quadrillion ZB (1ZB = 1 billion TB) Instantaneous snapshots Easy rollback End-to-end integrity If your data is important to you, use ZFS

Pooled storage

pg 11 Demo Demo: ZFS

What is DTrace? Dynamic troubleshooting and analysis tool Provides observability across the entire software stack from one tool Used for Troubleshooting software bugs Detailed observability Capturing profiling data for performance analysis

pg 13 Demo Demo: DTrace

pg 14 Agenda What is OpenSolaris? OpenSolaris vs. Solaris What makes OpenSolaris interesting? New features in Conclusion

pg 15 New Features in (Desktop) Gnome Compiz updates Suspend and resume to RAM New repositories Release, contrib, dev, extra & support More drivers (audio, SD card,...) New applications Firefox OpenOffice 3.0 Many others...

pg 16 OpenSolaris Repositories

pg 17 Demo Demo: Desktop Improvements

pg 18 Demo Demo: ZFS Timeslider

pg 19 Demo Demo: Package Manager Improvements

pg 20 Demo Demo: Multimedia

pg 21 New Features in (Server) Intel Nehalem support Automated install Distribution constructor Improved web stack Drupal and Django added OpenStorage ClearView Many new packages in the repository

What about SPARC support? only supports x86/x will have a special SPARC release Currently planned for beginning of 2009 It is very important for Sun, it just takes time

pg 23 Conclusion : lots of new features Better desktop experience Many new applications Ready to be extended as a platform Give it a try today! It’s free. Download from:

pg 24 Questions?

Thank you! Roman Strobl OpenSolaris Evangelist