OpenSolaris

1. Project: Caiman, Solaris Install Revisited
   1. Developer Information
   2. Discussions
   3. Blogs
   4. Leaders
   5. Observers
   6. Files
   7. Caiman Program Meeting
      1. Caiman Program Meeting Minutes
         1. MInutes from 2007 meetings
   8. Distribution Constructor Project
      1. Distribution Constructor Meetings
      2. Design Notes
         1. Language Notes
         2. TI_Notes
         3. transfer_Notes
         4. Enhanced SMF Profile Research Notes
         5. Finalizer Prototype
      3. Distribution Constructor Documentation
         1. Getting Started
   9. Slim Install Project
      1. Slim Install Announcements
      2. UI Specification
      3. Slim UI Roadmap
      4. Issues Tracked for Oct 2007
      5. Slim Install Documentation
         1. Welcome to Indiana!
            1. Roadmap
            2. System Requirements
            3. Prototype Limitations
            4. Multiboot Prep
            5. Partitioning
            6. How to Install
            7. nwam(1) Man Page
            8. GParted
            9. Parallels
      6. Slim Install Meetings
         1. Minutes for Aug 8
         2. Minutes from Aug 21
         3. Minutes from Aug 28
         4. Minutes from Sep 4
         5. Minutes from Sept 11
         6. Minutes from Sept 25
         7. Minutes from Jan 15 2008
         8. Minutes Jan 22
         9. Minutes from Feb 5
         10. Minutes from March 11
   10. Snap Upgrade Project
       1. Meetings
          1. Minutes
       2. Snap Upgrade Design Documentation
       3. Design notes, Thoughts etc...
          1. Upgrading Containers Requirements
       4. Snap Upgrade Test
   11. Automated Installation Project
       1. Automated Installer Requirements
   12. Dwarf Caiman Project
       1. Dwarf Project Team Meetings
       2. Dwarf Caiman Demo Page
   13. Events
   14. News

OpenSolaris Project: Caiman, Solaris Install Revisited

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Endorsing communities

Device Drivers
Installation and Packaging
Testing

Caiman is the code name for the program, and set of projects, to create a new OpenSolaris installation experience. The working ideas center on concepts such as:

• Updated and simplified graphical and text user interfaces which carry Sun's current branding
• Integrated hardware compatibility testing
• Integrated live CD/DVD experience to provide a "try before you buy" capability
• Deep integration with the latest Solaris features, such as ZFS and SMF
• Simplified system configuration, integrated with the post-installation experience
• Simple, fast, and reliable installation of additional software after installation

The problems which Caiman is attempting to solve are described in the Solaris Installation Strategy

An early architecture document from October 2006 is available for review. An update is intended.

Weekly program team meetings are held and are open to all interested. We can also be contacted in real time via IRC on the #caiman-discuss channel at chat.freenode.net.

Here's a screenshot of the Dwarf Caiman GUI:

Current Projects

Please see the page for each project for current plans and status.

• Slim Install
• Distribution Constructor
• Snap Upgrade
• Automated Installation

Completed Projects

• Dwarf Caiman

Blogs

clayb - An easier way to dual boot under Indiana

Mar 13, 2:12 AM

Ever want to run fdisk (1) on a machine just to label a partition? Recently in the February FROSUG meeting I was being a less than polite speaker as Ginnie Wray was presenting. I felt bad about my ...

dminer - Indiana Preview 2 now playing

Feb 13, 9:10 AM

The second preview of Indiana was pushed out for download about 15 hours ago as I write this.  As those who are following closely know, we'd actually made a testing image available via Bittorrent a ...

clayb - Lempel Ziv Markov Algorithm and 7-Zip

Feb 7, 2:37 AM

I've been working with the LZMA compression algorithm and code for a little while playing around with rewriting it in C and just understanding the algorithm and how it works. Certainly it's attracted ...

clayb - Removing AdminTool and replacing what's left with a very small shell script

Feb 6, 7:01 PM

For a few years Solaris sported a nifty user command called admintool (1M). This used to be my friend when I started doing system administration around 1997 on Solaris 2.5.1, but slowly the tack at ...

dminer - 10 Steps to Caiman Development on Indiana

Jan 11, 12:55 PM

In one of our meetings the other day I was pointing out to the team that I could tell most of them weren't using Indiana as their primary development platform, because I was finding bugs in the ...