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About OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris is a binary distribution, an open source engineering project, a website of multiple services, and a global community of developers and users. The project's goals are innovation, collaboration, and the extension of OpenSolaris technology.

The OpenSolaris Community

The OpenSolaris project is sponsored by Oracle, and the OpenSolaris community is organized into hundreds of Collectives with many thousands of people around the world. Community Groups sponsor development Projects and maintain source repositories and binary products, and User Groups evangelize the technology and participate in community-development programs.

Get Started

See the download center for links to the OpenSolaris Operating System, the community distributions, and the developer builds. Browse the source code. Read the Developer's Guide. Review the website services. Get involved.

Quick Links

Pointers to additional resources:

• Help & Contacts: Links to contacts to find help (also linked at the bottom of every page on the site).
• FAQ Center: Answers to questions about the website, licensing, trademarks, getting started, and more.
• Roadmap: Current program roadmap and an archive of roadmaps going back to 2005.
• Website User Guide: Get started using the opensolaris.org website.
• OCA: Oracle Contributor Agreement.
• Unreleased Code: OpenSolaris components currently not released as source.
• Values: Community values and code of conduct.

Also note that important policy documents are linked at the bottom of all pages on the site: Terms Of Use, Privacy, Trademarks, Copyright Policy, Site Guidelines, Site map, and Help.