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A Planning Guide for Moving to LDAP as Naming Service in the Solaris OS
Moving from Network Information Service (NIS) or NIS+ to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)? Read this first. Topics include DIT design and implementation of a hybrid DIT.

Managing Boot Environments With OpenSolaris Package Manager
Learn how to manipulate BEs for convenience and transparency; update software in a BE; clone, create, or delete BEs; and set a BE as default.

Writing Your First Ruby-on-Rails Web Application
Use NetBeans IDE 6.5 and GlassFish v3 Prelude to create a Ruby-on-Rails Web application in OpenSolaris 2008.11 without typing a single line of code.

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Sun's Open Network Systems Launch
Solaris 10 OS and OpenSolaris have been extended to provide performance, energy efficiency and reliability enhancements for the new Open Network Systems. Get more information and download the new Sun BluePrint.

Apps of Steel Challenge
Attention students, developers, and system administrators: Use your talents and participate in this challenge for a chance to win a Toshiba OpenSolaris laptop.

Sun Studio Express 03/09 Released
Sun Studio Express 3/09, the official build used for the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Early Access Program, is now available. Listen to the podcast to learn more about this release.

OpenSolaris 2008.11 Device Drivers Now on BigAdmin
Also, see the HCL list of third-party devices that run on OpenSolaris 2008.11.

The Observatory
The Observatory is a blog for users of OpenSolaris where you'll find tips, tricks and more to explore an open source distribution of the Solaris operating system from Sun Microsystems.

OpenSolaris Ignite - The OpenSolaris Newsletter
Check out the January and February issues of Ignite, a monthly newsletter by, for, and about the OpenSolaris community, featuring news, how-to articles, tech tips and reviews.

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Young Developers
These tools and web sites teach young people how to program using the Java programming language, as well as languages developed for ease of use.

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