One nice thing about the internet and most unix distros is that they have followers who are most often willing to help. One great place to get help from these people with experience is through forums. Forums, however, don't work for those of us lacking patience. For this, there are chat rooms, or more specifically IRC, or "Internet Relay Chat". Here there are many people discussing various topics that are above your understand who will kindly devote some attention to your little problems. On OpenSolaris, Pidgin comes preinstalled. Pidgin has chat clients for AIM, MSN, IRC, and anything else I've ever heard of (even ICQ. Do people sitll use that?). Good channels for OpenSolaris? #opensolaris. You join a global server, and from there enter rooms. So, you'd open Pidgin, add an account for IRC, and log on to the freenode server. From there, click join chat, and then enter #opensolaris. You're IRCing!
GUIs use so many resources though! Ew! Want to use IRC through a terminal prompt? Perhaps you've sshed in to your box and want some wild and crazy IRC?
$pfexec pkg install SUNWirssi
or
#pkg install SUNWirssi
Want quick and easy in? Run these in irssi
/CONNECT irc.freenode.net
/JOIN #opensolaris
You're up and chatting.
More on configuration later
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