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Introduction / Introduction to Solaris 11

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Now that we've talked about Solaris 11 a little bit, let's actually look at it. What I want to do now is take a quick tour of Solaris 11, kind of a driving or windshield tour of the operating system if you would. What we're going to do is look at the Live CD that Oracle produces and that you can download in Virtual Box. Now Oracle makes Virtual Box, it is virtualization software. It can be used to help create and view and interact with virtual machines. And this Live CD that we're going to look at, we're going to treat it as a virtual machine. You can boot your computer off of a Live CD so that you don't make any changes to the system and you can actually use Oracle Solaris 11. Or you can load it into a virtual machine and have, either this virtual machine run on another Linux box or a Solaris box or even a Windows box as we're doing here with Windows 7. So let's ahead and take a look at Oracle's Solaris 11 Installation Live CD in Oracle's Virtual Box. Alright we're looking at a Solaris 11 desktop and again we're using the Live CD so we could have booted our system on this but we're going to actually just play it in the Oracle Virtual Box. And what we're seeing here is the default desktop that comes with Solaris 11, the Live CD. And there's a few icons on the desktop, the Oracle Solaris Live CD itself that we can browse. We can also install the Oracle Solaris to our hard drives from this Live CD and we're going to do that in a future session. We have a Partition Editor and a Device Driver Utility. So these are the basic tools we would need to get Solaris 11 installed and running on our machine. Now there's a couple of things I want to show you, the top line menu obviously I will show you here in just a second. But you can see the bottom taskbar here and it shows you applications that are open plus you can switch to different virtual desktops as well. Now the top line menu if you're a Linux user or a Solaris user should actually look very familiar to you. It looks like several different distro's of Linux to be honest with you and I think that's intentional from Oracle. I think they've done a very good job of making Solaris 11 look a lot more like Linux. Because it would make it easier to learn and easier to adapt to for most Linux users. If you're a Windows user obviously this will look a little bit different for you but it's actually very easy to learn. Let's take a quick look at the top line menu here. We're just going to give you a brief tour of some of the things that you'll see here. Now we have things like the Applications Top Line here and it contains things like Accessories, Developer Tools, Graphics and so forth. And as you can see there are some good default applications and tools that come with Solaris 11 by default. Firefox web browser, very popular, the Thunderbird Mail Client which is my favorite, Office Tools, Sound and Video Tools and so forth. And we'll have a chance to go through some of these as we go through the course. The Places part of the top line menu here basically gives you the opportunity to browse the system and look at particular folders such as documents, pictures, videos and so forth or to browse the entire computer and look at different parts of the file system. The system portion here allows you to go and look at preferences, administer the box and make different configuration settings obviously. You've also got some icons up here at the top such as the Home icon which takes you to your home folder, Firefox and Thunderbird icons, the Package Manager icon and also the Terminal. And speaking of the Terminal, let's open it very quickly. Just take a quick look at it. And it's basically set up like you would expect from a Linux or a Solaris box. You can make different changes to it, you can make it easier to see and change the color and the background and the fonts and so forth as I've done here. And basically from the Terminal you can execute any system command or script or whatever you like from the, from the Shell prompt here and run the system. And we'll actually be using the Shell prompt quite a bit throughout the course. So this is a quick tour of Solaris 11, just a kind of a, a, to get and look and feel of it. And it's actually not very difficult to use and you'll get the opportunity to do some things with it in sessions coming up. And in a few moments, in another session we're actually going to install Solaris 11 from this desktop.

Tutorial Information

Course: Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration - Exam 1Z0-821
Author: Bobby Rogers
SKU: 34398
ISBN: 978-1-61866-083-1
Release Date: 2012-12-24
Duration: 8 hrs / 92 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: No
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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