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Welcome to the Immigrants Page of the Advocacy CGThis space is dedicated to bridging the gap and easing the transition between other UNIX OS's and OpenSolaris. This is not a replacement for other help resources, such as OpenSolaris:Help. Instead it is a place for experienced users of other *nix OS's to explore and address issues involved in the transition to OpenSolaris without having to feel the shame of asking "n00b" questions. If you know what you want to do, but not how to do it, this is the place for you. The following reference may help ease your transition:
Background on the Immigrants Community The Immigrants Community was merged into the Advocacy CG in June of 2007. See all the background here. Below is the original announcement for the Immigrants Community from March of 2006. Announcements We're Open for Business! | 03/30/2006 I'm pleased to announce that the OpenSolaris Immigrants Community is now open! This community is tasked specifically with helping ease the burden and retraining frustrations of migration to or exploration of OpenSolaris. We hope to foster a friendly and professional environment where experienced administrators, users, and developers can explore Solaris & OpenSolaris. Coming from another OS, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AIX, HP-UX, etc, can be frustrating particularly because you know what you want to do, just not how to do it. Here we will help answer those questions and provide the community as a whole with information, documentation, and resources to ease that transition to what we believe is a platform that offers far more features and functionality than available elsewhere. We strongly believe that simply because you are new to Solaris/OpenSolaris doesn't mean you should be treated disrespectfully (as a "n00b") or given UNIX 101. Even simple tasks can be annoying when your learning now things work on a new platform, and we want to find these areas and address them promptly, for the benefit of all. Remember, if something is difficult or odd for you its probably difficult and odd for others as well, so share your insights, questions and observations to help yourself and others. I encourage anyone who's struggling to make the adjustment to post to our discussion list with your questions. If you're thinking about making the switch from some other platform but have questions before you do, this is the perfect place to ask! And if your already an OpenSolaris expert but enjoy talking with new users and helping intelligent and experienced users make the switch, I welcome you to help out and join this excellent evangelism opportunity by assisting other users. Lets be honest, even if there was a perfect OS you'd still slam your fists against it at first while you learned how it worked. Lets all work together and help each other learn, grow, and ultimately contribute to this great project. Thank You. Ben Rockwood & The OS-Immigrants Community |