On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:35:10 -0500 Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> Hillel Lubman wrote: > > I can't update Firefox from /dev repo, without switching the whole > > system to it. So I either have to wait until next major system > > release, or to switch to /dev, or to install Firefox manually > > (which I did using the SVR4 package from Mozilla releases archive). > > Right, that's an artifact of how packages are currently built and > tested. Currently, packages are built and tested as a 'giant > collection' against each core system build, so almost all packages > are locked together for installation and update. > > > In general, is it OK to use dev repository for desktop usage? In > > Debian for example, "testing" release is quite OK for common usage. > > In general, it should be, yes. There have been very few builds that > I have skipped for /dev. The best way to decide is to simply read > the release notes when they're announced. > > Of course, remember that because of how image-update is performed, > you can always boot back to your old environment if the new one > doesn't work right. I quite agree. I follow the developers edition of solaris for quite some time now. I began with SXDE, then SXCE and now OpenSolaris/dev. I must say the OpenSolaris dev distros are the best I worked with. In allt hat time I skipped only two versions. That is to say I reversed to my old installation after trying the new one. As said, with ZFS going back is -SO- easy. You really don't have to worry abut things going wrong ;-) My advice: try it. B118 is really better than the 2009.06 release (imho). -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | nevada / OpenSolaris 2010.02 B118 + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol)
