Sun Microsystems, Inc. has reached agreement with The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) and The Open Group (TOG) that allows Sun to deliver those sections of the SunOS Reference Manual (man pages) that contain portions of specifications copyrighted by these two organizations into the OpenSolaris 2008.11 release. We very much appreciate IEEE and TOG for their cooperation in our effort to expand the scope of the documentation we are able to provide to the OpenSolaris community.
This agreement covers man pages that document more than 700 of the most commonly used user commands and library routines. The OpenSolaris community has repeatedly asked that these pages be included, and we are happy to announce that we can now provide them to the community. The inclusion of these man pages brings the total number of man pages in OpenSolaris to more than 5500, or 95 per cent of all man pages in the SunOS Reference Manual. We are working diligently to include the remaining pages as soon as possible.
