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Get OpenSolaris 2008.05

Download the Live CD

The Live CD boots to a fully functional GNOME desktop environment, including Firefox, and Thunderbird. Along with the features you'd come to expect of an OpenSolaris operating system, there are also some changes - the introduction of a new installer and package management system, and access to the GNU utilities in the default path. Installation of legacy SVr4 Solaris packages is still possible through pkgadd(1). Network Auto-Magic is enabled by default to automatically manage your network interfaces. The Live CD also provides the option to perform an installation of the OpenSolaris binary distribution onto an x86 system. Prior to downloading the image, check out there installation system requirements and limitations of the OpenSolaris Developer Preview.

Download the ISO image for the Live CD at the following locations -

HTTP/FTP

• http://dlc.sun.com/osol/opensolaris/latest.iso [md5sums] (Bay Area, California, US)
• ftp://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/opensolaris/current/os200805.iso (Sweden)

BitTorrent

• http://dlc.sun.com/torrents/info/os200805.iso.torrent (Bay Area, California, US)
• http://www.genunix.org/distributions/indiana/os200805.iso

An image that contains a larger selection of languages is also available for download. However, this image uses an experimental compression format and will result in a slower installation process.

Try out the Live CD

After downloading, you will need to burn the ISO image to your CD (if you aren't using another method eg. VMWare). Use CD-Rs and software that supports your CD burner. On a Solaris system, for example, you can use the cdrw(1) command to burn a CD as follows -

cdrw -i /path/to/iso/image/os200805.iso

After successfully burning the ISO image to your CD, you will now be able to launch OpenSolaris2008.05 Live CD. You must make sure you boot your system from the CD drive rather than the system disk. The Live CD will automatically try to connect you to the network. You'll notice a few changes from a typical Solaris installation - the use of ZFS as the default root filesystem, the introduction of /usr/gnu/bin to the default PATH, bash as the default shell, and ksh93 as the default /bin/sh. These changes are still experimental and expected to evolve over time.

If you need to administer the system, you may require the username and password for the Live CD user - these are user jack and password jack The root password is opensolaris.

Install OpenSolaris 2008.05

Should you like your experience with the OpenSolaris operating system, you may like to install it to your system. You can execute the OpenSolaris installer by clicking on the Install OpenSolaris icon on your desktop. For detailed installation instructions, see OpenSolaris Installation Documentation.

Once installed, you may update your software with IPS. Additional software packages can be installed from the package repository at http://pkg.opensolaris.org using a simple command -

pkg refresh
pkg install [package name]

For further details, see the OpenSolaris Package Management Documentation. You can also easily upgrade your system, when upgrades become available, by following the steps in the Update Guidelines.