I'm pleased to announce that the OpenSolaris Immigrants Community is now open!
This community is tasked specifically with helping ease the burden and retraining frustrations of migration to or exploration of OpenSolaris. We hope to foster a friendly and professional environment where experienced administrators, users, and developers can explore Solaris & OpenSolaris. Coming from another OS, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AIX, HP-UX, etc, can be frustrating particularly because you know what you want to do, just not how to do it. Here we will help answer those questions and provide the community as a whole with information, documentation, and resources to ease that transition to what we believe is a platform that offers far more features and functionality than available elsewhere. We strongly believe that simply because you are new to Solaris/OpenSolaris doesn't mean you should be treated disrespectfully (as a "n00b") or given UNIX 101. Even simple tasks can be annoying when your learning now things work on a new platform, and we want to find these areas and address them promptly, for the benefit of all. Remember, if something is difficult or odd for you its probably difficult and odd for others as well, so share your insights, questions and observations to help yourself and others. I encourage anyone who's struggling to make the adjustment to post to our discussion list with your questions. If you're thinking about making the switch from some other platform but have questions before you do, this is the perfect place to ask! And if your already an OpenSolaris expert but enjoy talking with new users and helping intellegent and experienced users make the switch, I welcome you to help out and join this excellent evangelism opportunity by assisting other users. Lets be honest, even if there was a perfect OS you'd still slam your fists against it at first while you learned how it worked. Lets all work together and help each other learn, grow, and ultimately contribute to this great project. Visit our community here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/immigrants/ Post to our discussion list here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/immigrants/discussions/ Thank You. Ben Rockwood & The OS-Immigrants Community
