Hi Susan and Alan, it's good and important that you (Susan) mention the relationship between Solaris and OpenSolaris. In these discussion lists, we ususally talk about both at the same time, and many aren't aware of that.
I think it's correct to say that almost all documentation about OpenSolaris is "inherited" from Sun, and that the community is just starting to find its role in the documentation area. While it's okay to request more documentation or pointers to it, I'd like to see contributions, too. I'm happy that so much documentation has been made available by Sun. It could me much worse. Consider what you get when you by a PC, and with it the software that was installed on it. In the FOSS area, some stuff is documented very well, e.g. PostgreSQL has excellent manuals, but for other products, hardly anything is available. I would hope that all of OpenSolaris including SFW will be documented as well as the best-documented Sun software, and it's our job to do that. (And to make available what already exists.) Now that SMF, ZFS, and DTrace are open, everyone of us can go ahead and help make the docs perfect. And the community will appreciate it. Rainer
