OpenSolaris Documentation Community SketchPad/2008.11Docs

* Revise installer online help for new enhancements (Owner: Barbara Lundquist)
* Revise snap update chapter to cover new zone support, new BE auto management and rollback (Owner: Barbara Lundquist)
* Document new Automated Install Preview (new Jumpstart replacement) (Owner: Barbara Lundquist)
* new man page for libbe (boot environment library)
* Revise existing man pages for IPS and snap upgrade
* Describe new model for updating systems" (package update...not patching)  

* CIFS
* xVM Hypervisor
* Modernization
* IPS 
* Install/Slim Install
* Snap Upgrade
* Dtrace 

* How to setup OpenOffice
* Working with Files
* Document the enhancements to Desktop experience
  o Coolstart Graphical startup/shutdown
  o NWAM GUI <---- is this different from single desktop administration info?
  o "Presto" - Add Printer <---- is this different from single desktop administration info?
  o About OpenSolaris panel
  o Software Update panel applet (see Package Manager)
  o Desktop accessibility 

• Can we give links to places to download apps such as MP3 and DVD players, and maybe a little bit of download and installation help?
• This topic - "Cool Features of OpenSolaris (playing music, web cam, BrandZ, skype in BrandZ, Compiz, Building OpenSource applications, Second Life etc)", including Run COMPIZ, Native support of USB-VC webcams, Video conferencing and making phone calls using VOIP with Ekiga, Run Skype and Google Earth in BrandZ, Build open source applications using configure, make, and make install, Use USB-attached cell phones as modems, Use SecondLife open source client built for the Solaris operating system - claims to be covered in the OpenSolaris Technical Essentials web-based course, but it really is not covered there (a sentence and a picture for each). And it's a hassle to get even that - you have to sign up for the course, wait for the email with your password, log in to the course. Can we make some of this information readily accessible?

* How to migrate
* Why to migrate
* Compare Linux installations to OpenSolaris installation
* Compare Linux administration to OpenSolaris administration

* Compare SXCE to OpenSolaris 2008.11
* Document "Solaris 10 co-existence" with OpenSolaris 2008.11 if installation team implements this feature
* Document possible SPARC (sunv4) inclusion in Automated Install Preview 
* SPARC story`

* How to setup Video and audio
* How to setup printers
* How to setup mail service
* Basic user commands (ls, pwd,mkdir)
* Basic system info commands (df, truss,ifconfig,uname)
* Adding and removing users
* How do I debug my network configuration (if it's not working out of the box)?
* How do I set up a domain name for the OpenSolaris env.
* How do I find out what my host ip address is?
* How do I setup to share files in both directions between my windows and my Solaris environments ?
* Show matrix of other open source or free (user) software can I use with OpenSolaris?

Kathy Slattery is starting work and has separate discussion going here.

* Winchester
* Clearview
* Brussels
* NFSv4 Changes
* Suspend to Ram
* Kerberos Changes
* Secure By Default
* NWAM
* Storage - NDMP
* MpxIO?
* SATA HBA drivers
* iSCSI Stuff
* Dtrace
* FMA
* Zones 

* "Time machine" ZFS snapshots available on desktop
* ZSF disk management control panel on desktop
* Virtualization control panel on desktop
* Service Management tool on desktop - Start/Stop/Monitor/Configure network-based services 

*  IOAT and Volo putback in 2008.11 (pluggable sockets & reduction of STREAMs overhead)
* Clearview putback in 2008.11 (observability of loopback devices, inter-zone traffic) 
* troubleshooting - what to do when your network goes down in Desktop admin guide)

* How to create a package
* Managing snapshots (best practices)
* Emphasize package manager GUI
* Updates to pkg(5), Package Manager
* Support for easier publication
* Actions support smf(5) restart/refresh
* Mirroring and better transport handling
* Better web reporting
* Multi-platform packages
* Additional packages
* pkg.sun.com for encumbered software
* Community repository for “new bits” OSS 
* Multiple repositories - pre-populated, user added
* Update All – new BE, rollback
* Search, filtering improvements
* Better package categorization
* Desktop includes Software Update panel applet which notifies user of "official" package updates and performs the update
* Authority/certificate support
* Limited snapshot support during update
* Search Behavior enhancements - allow package file search
* Package options - allow filtering for languages, platform
* How to submit a package to the experimental repository 
* Managing the Package Repository
  o Maintaining local mirrors
  o Syncing content with the main server
  o Managing internal repositories for custom applications 

* How to configure your Network Stack 
* Document end-to-end setup of the developer environment
* Revise documents for developer tools including
  o NetBeans
  o Glassfish
  o Sun Studio Express
  o Web Stack Tools
  o Sun HPC Cluster Tools
  o Other developer tools