Online Sun Resources

Sun documents

Sun AnswerBooks online
The "AnswerBook" is Sun's online documentation, a searchable version of the many thick 3-ring binders full of information constituting the Sun manuals. If you have the inclination and the disk space, you can install the Solaris AnswerBook onto your Solaris box when you install the OS. This link goes to Sun's site. Very comprehensive and highly recommended.
SunService support site
http://sunsolve.sun.com/, SunService's Web presence. This site is of limited, though not zero, utility to users not having a Sun support contract.
You don't need a contract to use:
- Sun's public patch site
- Sun's security bulletins
Sun Performance Information
Lots of info. The "TCP slow start" is particularly of interest for Web servers.
Solaris error messages (text)
Comparison of SunOS4 and Solaris 2 Commands (text)

http://www.bigadmin.com/ is a useful, user-driven site maintained by Sun.

Currently, these are local copies of these documents, which means they might not be the most recent ones.

These are not official Sun documents, nor written by EITS, nor otherwise guaranteed to be correct, but we find them helpful.

WSG maintains some precompiled software; see ftp://ftp.uga.edu/pub/unix/packages/ and ftp://ftp.uga.edu/pub/unix/sun/packages/. Some of this software is distributed as "tar" archives, and some may be distributed in Solaris "pkgadd" format. Be sure to read any README files you encounter.

A large source of precompiled freeware for Solaris is at http://www.sunfreeware.com/.

Here are the sun news groups. You will need to set up your browser to read news from news.uga.edu.

There's a little bit of stuff not otherwise mentioned above stored in the WSG Sun area on ftp.uga.edu.

Last modified: Thursday, 13-Feb-2003 12:12:00 EST
URL: http://www.uga.edu/~ucns/wsg/sun/resources.html