Indiana will eventually be blessed by Sun. This is what they are recommending, though it's aimed squarely at developers for a while. SXDE is the best middle ground, without being so old you lose functionality. The majority of actual development is done on SXDE outside of ON. The KDE4/Qt4 port for example is built against a Sun donated system with SXDE, presumably B82 or so, making 10 builds of backwards/forwards compatibility as bits from Vermillion and OpenJDK also presumably are build against both platforms, used interchangably. Using BFU archives for ON though is only recommended on something like 3 builds, though I'm sure a few have built source on older consolidations of OpenSolaris SX:XE. (Mainly SPARC users I'd suspect)
I didn't hear about B92 being skipped, already yelled at the JDS maintainer on desktop-discuss for Sun being opaque with builds. Which I still think they are, they didn't mention this anywhere accessible or easy to find for external users. If you like I could maybe load SXCE B90 -> B91 (lu) on my T30, but the disks are almost trash so it's time consuming to get an OS + software loaded. James On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Stuart <stuart at marketdata.com> wrote: > Hi James, > > Thanks for this good update. Looking back, I did install the SXCE you > referred to, by the way. About B92, I would look forward to that but I > wonder if it will ever come along. According to Sun's website, they will no > longer be supporting the SXDE program, which is very disappointing. Does > this impact any consideration for a future release of B92? > > For now, I will have to stick to SXDE because it is the only OS (aside from > the production Solaris 10 release) that appears to be stable. However, I > would really fancy having a copy of B92. > > > Regards, > Stuart > > > James Cornell wrote: > > Oh yes. Sun put extra effort into SXDE for sure. I don't see B92 but I > know Sun has it internally. I really wish there was something I could sign > so I could get a read-only copy of what they got, but oh well... I guess you > have to wait for another week. I checked ON archive and it's 062308, 2 > weeks ago. Problem could be fixed, I'm just not sure what to look for > specifically. So it's good that you need to wait anyways because Sun has > yet to push out B92 which includes Intel WPA2 wifi support for example, > probably what is holding up the actual release. (Legal woes) > > James > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Stuart <stuart at marketdata.com> wrote: > >> Hi James, >> >> I really found the SXDE 1/08 to be fantastic, to say the least. It's >> great. I can go back to reinstalling SXCE but won't get a chance to do so >> for a couple of days. I need to download a newer build because the build I >> downloaded two weeks ago clearly does not work correctly. >> >> >> -Stuart >> >> James Cornell wrote: >> >>> Stuart wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Has anyone noticed a problem using DVD on SXCE SNV_91? I installed SXCE >>>> SNV_91 on an IBM T30 laptop and noticed that if I insert a DVD disk into >>>> the >>>> DVD drive, it works fine. After I eject it, it seems the DVD drive is no >>>> longer a valid device. If I insert a DVD disk again it does not mount it >>>> and >>>> if I try to get properties on the DVD it says there is no disk inserted. I >>>> also can't mount a disk manually as root. After rebooting it works fine >>>> only >>>> once, then I need to reboot again. I couldn't find any related messages in >>>> /var/adm/messages or /var/log/syslog. >>>> >>>> Is there is work-around or fix for this? I installed SXDE 1/08 and also >>>> installed 05/08 and both work fine. I don't think it is hardware related. >>>> >>>> -Stuart >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> The last time I used SXCE on my T30 was with B86, the disks are crap and >>> need to be replaced (again). I don't recall the DVD-rom doing that. SXDE >>> has now ceased development, so switch to SXCE B91+ please and tell me if you >>> still have the issue. Both of the SXDE's mentioned are 10 builds out of >>> date or more. >>> >>> James >>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the >> designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient >> of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, >> distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. 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