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illumos Day / ZFS Day

Final videos and slide decks gradually going up here.

About illumos

This is the home of the illumos project, the open source fork of Sun's OpenSolaris. Launched in 2010, the project enjoys financial and technical support from several key companies which rely on the illumos kernel as the technological foundation for their own products, as well as the backing of a growing developer community.

• History and... philosophy: Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos - Bryan Cantrill's talk at USENIX LISA '11.
• Current Events
• FAQs
• Sponsors and Partners
• Who's Who in illumos
• Current Events in illumos
• NEW: Search all illumos-related sources.

Talk to Us

• Mailing Lists
• irc: irc://irc.freenode.net/ #illumos on http://freenode.net/ freenode. This channel is logged and you can see statistics.
• Local User Groups and MeetUps

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Contributing to illumos

This is an evolving open-source project, and anyone can help advance it! You don't have to be a hard-core coder or software architect, there are many smaller things to take care of, such as finding bugs, updating and expanding the documentation, proposing ideas...

Developers

• Browse the illumos Source
• Report illumos Bugs
• Source Repository Access Control

Guides

• Building illumos and OpenIndiana – General overview to bootstrap new contributors; details provided in many other pages
• How To Build illumos
  • Build Times
  • How To Build Components
• How To Contribute
• Project Ideas
• How To Report Problems
• Mercurial Workflow

Other Resources

• illumos Mailing Lists
• Serial console in VirtualBox
• Google Summer of Code
• Manual Pages
• On the Quality Death Spiral
• Comparing arbitrary sources with webrev(1)
• The (Solaris) System Developer's Edge Selected Blog Posts and Articles by Darryl Gove

Non-Code Contributors

Want to help out, but you're not a software developer? There's plenty you can do!

• Documentation (videos and screencasts are great, too!)
• Translate: man pages, docs, software, sites...
• Video transcription (it's possible to start from YouTube machine transcriptions, but these always need tweaking),
• testing
• code commenting

Documentation & Resources

• illumos blog (the latest news about illumos)
• OpenSolaris Documentation
• napp-it ZFS server manuals. Collaborate and create manuals under a open CC-licence using booki.cc
• illumos manual pages (online, HTML)
• illumos Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)
• illumos books (repo, bugs reporting, etc.: https://github.com/rmustacc/illumos-docbooks)

Key illumos Technologies

• DTrace - dynamic tracing to observe everything going on in your system
• ZFS file system
• Zones virtualization
• Network Virtualization
• KVM kernel virtual machine

Using illumos

• Analyzing Performance

Using the illumos Logo

• The illumos Logo and guidelines for usage