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Discussions

OpenSolaris has public mailing lists, referred to as "discussions', that cover a variety of subjects. There are community- and project-specific lists as well as general lists (e.g., 'discuss' and 'code'). If you are new to OpenSolaris and need help with installation you can post your questions to the opensolaris-help forum.

To get a feel for the current hot topics in the community, we suggest reviewing the opensolaris-discuss list. This is also a good place to ask general questions about the OpenSolaris community, but please use opensolaris-help for installation issues.

OpenSolaris discussions are focused on OpenSolaris technology.

  • Information about installing and deploying Solaris releases (e.g., Solaris 10) can be found in the Administration forums.
  • Information about support for and troubleshooting the use of other distributions based on OpenSolaris can be found on the websites for those distributions. See the OpenSolaris Downloads page for details.

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Discussion Lists Email Action

OpenSolaris: help

List for discussing difficulties in getting, building and installing OpenSolaris.

OpenSolaris: discuss

OpenSolaris General Discussion. All topics involving OpenSolaris are open for discussion.

OpenSolaris: announce

Announcements of OpenSolaris changes and events. To stay aware of major OpenSolaris news, subscribe to this list.

OpenSolaris: arc

Discussion of ARC issues affecting OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris: bugs

OpenSolaris Bug Reporting List

OpenSolaris: code

OpenSolaris Technical Discussion. Technical topics involving the architecture or implementation of any OpenSolaris component may be discussed in this forum.

OpenSolaris: mktg

This forum is retired, please use the Advocacy mailing list... http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss

OpenSolaris: program-team

Discussion list for the OpenSolaris Program Team

OpenSolaris: request-sponsor

Use this list to request and obtain a sponsor for your contributions. Once you have sponsor, please use a separate, community-specific alias if appropriate, or 1:1 e-mail with your sponsor, for contribution details.

OpenSolaris: rfe

OpenSolaris RFE's Reporting and Discussion List

OpenSolaris: sponsor-signup

Sponsor signup

accessibility: discuss

Discussion related to the collaboration and development of accessibility related content.

advocacy: discuss

Advocacy Community Group

advocacy: awards-program

OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards Program

advocacy: champions

OpenSolaris Champions Program

appliances: discuss

Discussion about building appliances using OpenSolaris

approachability: discuss

This is a general list for approachability related discussion.

arc: discuss

ARC general discussion

brandz: discuss

This is a general list for BrandZ related discussion.

cab: discuss

This list is retired, please use: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss

databases: discuss

Databases Discussion

desktop: discuss

This is a general list for desktop related discussion, both developer and end user.

device drivers: discuss

This is a general list for discussions about device drivers on OpenSolaris.

device drivers: usb

USB Discussion

distribution: discuss

Distribution Community discussions.

documentation: discuss

General documentation discussion and requests to contribute documentation.

dtrace: discuss

DTrace General Discussion

education: discuss

General discussion of OpenSolaris issues affecting students, faculty, and researchers

education: challenge

Discussion group for Solaris University Challenge contestants

education: curriculum

Curriculum Discussion

education: course-training

Course training discussion

emerging-platforms: discuss

Discussion list for Emerging Platforms Community

fm: discuss

This list is for the general discussion of the tools, technology, infrastructure, and content to permit Solaris and Sun products to recover from, diagnose, isolate, and explain faults.

games: discuss

OpenSolaris Games Discussion

gnu-solaris: discuss

GNU Solaris General Discussion

ha-clusters: discuss

HA Clusters Community Group General Discussions

hpcdev: discuss

HPC Developers Discussion

i18n: discuss

General discussion for OpenSolaris software internationalization and localization.

i18n: g11n-cs-discuss

General discussion for OpenSolaris software in Czech

i18n: g11n-de-discuss

General discussion for OpenSolaris software in German.

i18n: g11n-es-discuss

General discussion for OpenSolaris software in Spanish.

i18n: g11n-fr-discuss

General discussion for OpenSolaris software in French.

i18n: g11n-id-discuss

General discussion for OpenSolaris software in Indonesian.

i18n: g11n-in-discuss

Indic discussion list

i18n: g11n-it-discuss

General discussion for OpenSolaris software in Italian.

i18n: g11n-ja-discuss

General discussion for OpenSolaris software in Japanese.

i18n: g11n-ko-discuss

General discussion for OpenSolaris software in Korean.

i18n: g11n-pl-discuss

Polish Discuss List

i18n: g11n-pt-br-discuss

General discussion for OpenSolaris in Brazilian Portuguese

i18n: g11n-sk-discuss

Slovakian discussion list

i18n: g11n-zh-cn-discuss

General discussion for OpenSolaris software in Simplified Chinese.

i18n: g11n-zh-hk-discuss

General discussion for OpenSolaris software in Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong).

i18n: g11n-zh-tw-discuss

General discussion for OpenSolaris software in Traditional Chinese.

immigrants: discuss

This forum is retired, please use the Advocacy mailing list... http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss

install: discuss

Installation and Packaging Discussion

laptop: discuss

Discussions about anything needed to make any laptop work better, last longer, while running your favorite operating system.

ldoms: discuss

Logical Domains, or LDoms, is Sun's new server virtualization and partitioning technology for CoolThreads(TM) servers. This list is a discussion alias for the LDoms community.

lvm: discuss

OpenSolaris Volume Manager General Discussion

mdb: discuss

MDB General Discussion

networking: discuss

Networking General Discussion

nfs: discuss

NFS General Discussion

observability: discuss

Discussion of tools and facilities to observe software and hardware behavior on OpenSolaris

ogb: discuss

OpenSolaris Governing Board discussions

performance: discuss

Performance General Discussion

pm: discuss

Power Management Community Discussion

powerpc: discuss

PowerPC General Discussion

printing: discuss

Printing General Discussion

real-time: discuss

Need description

ro-users: discuss

Romanian Users Community

ro-users: trademark-policy-dev

This project is chartered to develop a Trademark usage and Branding guideline policy that covers the use of the OpenSolaris Trademark.

security: discuss

Security General Discussion

storage: discuss

OpenSolaris storage software discussions

storage: announce

Storage Community Group Announcements

sysadmin: discuss

Discussion group for System Administrators

testing: discuss

Testing General Discussion

smf: discuss

SMF General Discussion

sw-porters: discuss

Discussion forum for the Software Porters Community

tools: discuss

Tools General Discussion

tools: gcc

This forum is retired, please use the tools-compilers mailing list... http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/tools-compilers

tools: linking

Discussions regarding the link-editors, dynamic linking, and related tools.

tools: compilers

Compilers discussion

ufs: discuss

General Discussion about Unix File Systems (UFS), the generic file system layer and file system utilities technologies.

ug: discuss

This forum is retired, please use the Advocacy mailing list... http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss

ug: adl-osug

Adelaide OpenSolaris User Group. Sponsored by the Advocacy CG.

ug: alamosug

San Antonio OpenSolaris User Group. Sponsored by the Advocacy CG.

ug: aosug

Argentina OpenSolaris User Group

ug: atlosug

Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group

ug: bjosug

Beijing Open Solaris User Group (BJOSUG) General Discussion

ug: bosug

Bangalore Open Solaris User Group (BOSUG) General Discussion

ug: chosug

Switzerland OpenSolaris User Group

ug: colosug

Colombia OpenSolaris User Group. Sponsored by the Advocacy CG.

ug: cosug

Chennai OpenSolaris User Group

ug: czosug

Czech OpenSolaris Users Group

ug: fosug

French OpenSolaris User Group

ug: frosug

Front Range OpenSolaris User Group (FROSUG) General Discussion

ug: glug

OpenSolaris Great Lakes User Group

ug: gosug

German OpenSolaris User Group

ug: hosug

Hyderabad OpenSolaris User Group

ug: iosug

Israel Open Solaris User Group (IOSUG) General Discussion

ug: ieosug

Ireland OpenSolaris User Group

ug: itlosug

Italy OpenSolaris User Group

ug: jposug

Japan OpenSolaris User Group

ug: kosug

Korea OpenSolaris User Group

ug: losug

London Open Solaris User Group (LOSUG) General Discussion

ug: madosug

Madurai OpenSolaris User Group

ug: mmosug

Mumbai OpenSolaris User Group

ug: mosug

Moscow OpenSolaris User Group

ug: neosug

New England OpenSolaris User Group

ug: nitwosug

Warangal OpenSolaris User Group

ug: nlosug

Netherlands OpenSolaris User Group

ug: plosug

Poland OpenSolaris User Group

ug: posug

Pune, India OpenSolaris User Group

ug: ruosug

Russia OpenSolaris User Group

ug: sdosug

San Diego OpenSolaris User Group

ug: shosug

Shanghai OpenSolaris Users Group

ug: svosug

Silicon Valley Open Solaris User Group (SVOSUG) General Discussion

ug: swosug

Sweden OpenSolaris User Group (SWOSUG) General Discussion

ug: szosug

Shengzhen OpenSolaris User Group

ug: tosug

Turkey OpenSolaris User Group

ug: twosug

Taiwan OpenSolaris User Group

ug: vosug

Venezuela Open Solaris User Group (VOSUG) General Discussion

website: discuss

Discussions pertaining to the development of opensolaris.org

xen: discuss

General discussion about the OpenSolaris on Xen project

xwindow: discuss

X Window System General Discussion

zfs: discuss

General discussion about ZFS

zfs: code

Discussion specific to ZFS source code and implementation details

zh-users: discuss

Chinese User Community General Discussion

zones: discuss

Zones General Discussion

audit: discuss

Audit project discussion

bluetooth: notify

Notifications for Bluetooth project commits