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SmartOS Developers Guide

An open source operating system is only as powerful and diverse as its community of developers. Success requires drawing upon a wide variety of talents, skills, and passions.  From innovative new groundbreaking features to simple bug and security fixes, the SmartOS community needs a host of developers with skills at every level.

Here you will find guidance on how to begin your journey as a SmartOS Developer.

• Contributing to SmartOS
• Building SmartOS on SmartOS
• Extending smartos-live
• Community Experiments
• Building Individual Drivers in SmartOS
• Porting Network Device Drivers from FreeBSD
• SmartOS Command Line Tips
• LX Branded Zones
• Running SmartOS on OmniOS KVM
• Joyent Technology Discussion video series (updated regularly!)

Tim Foster recently did a JTD on setting up a Triton & Manta development environment (which also covers SmartOS).