I have just installed the newest version of OpenSolaris on my laptop, and now I’m going through the installation of the ‘be-or-not-to-be’ software, I have noticed that the OS 11 has a nice package manager, but I couldn’t find the flash player on it. Here you have a short and easy instructions on how to install flash player on your best of the best opensolaris box:

1. Go to any page where you expect flash contant (e.g www.youtube.com)
2. Click the ‘install flash player’, unfortunatelly it’s not that easy (the reason I’m writing this post) but you can download it on you desktop. If this for some reason doesn’t work (I got some security errors, just use wget to get the file – wget already installed ).
3. Un-gzip it.
4. change to root on the console (su -)
5. copy the libflashplayer.so to the /usr/lib/firefox/plugins directory
6. restart the firefox
7. Enjoy flash movies!!

Good luck!

I don’t blog much last couple of days (actually months ) but this one I just had too. I run into one post on Dzone (link) which was about ZFS time machine in new solaris 11.2008 and I thought that its good time I’ll give it another shot. I had some really bad experiences using solaris/opensolaris in dual boot with Windows Vista and was a bit scared but I’m in SHOCK!!!!! I have a IBM Lenovo R61 laptop, created some additional space using Vista’s partitioner, put the live CD into the cd drive and voila!!!
No problems with wireless (I have to say that it works better than on ubuntu so far), no problems with dual booting either, it was just working straight away, no manual editing of the grub file, nothing, nada, zero, PERFECT!!!
It seems actually much faster (maybe it’s my new laptop who knows).
Guys at Open Solaris — keep up the good work, thanks!