Pro OpenSolaris

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Apress' Pro OpenSolaris is the second English language book to be
published specifically about Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris open
source operating system. The first was the comprehensive,1000-page,
OpenSolaris Bible published by Wiley in March 2009. That book
purposely covered all aspects of OpenSolaris for those with only
basic familiarity with Solaris and UNIX as well as for those with
greater administration and developer experience; it reviewed desktop
tools, networking, shell programming, and system administration
along with the unique features of OpenSolaris.

Pro OpenSolaris, published in April 2009 and based on the OpenSolaris
2008.11 release, assumes the reader is already comfortable with the
user and development environments of GNOME and Linux; it focuses
primarily on the key OpenSolaris features that should be learned
and exploited for Web development. It includes an extensive chapter
detailing a sample Web stack project based on the zones, ZFS,
security, and SMF topics introduced in the preceding chapters. The
book also highlights relevant online references and resources for
further learning. Although all of the information about OpenSolaris
is available on myriad Web sites, books such as Pro OpenSolaris
give you a roadmap and recommended sequence of what to learn first.
It also strongly emphasizes that open source solutions can be
effectively hosted on OpenSolaris as well as on Linux.