Afaik SXCE still has all of what you need. If you mean you're intending on going straight to Indiana (ZFS + ips goodness) then yes this is an issue. Some Sun engineers have already stated on the lists that those type of things should be available to those with a contract on http://pkg.sun.com/ as opposed to the normal http://pkg.opensolaris.org/ mirror. Contract customers should also be able to get custom patches/backports on the same mirror, but so far there's no definitive plan for that in regards to how you the user/administrator would access the resource (IE: credentials) or how backports and custom patches (In binary form) would fit in with dependency handling in ips. But anyways, if you're still using S10, SXCE is still a viable platform, until Indiana gets back to gate with its bits, as opposed to current model which is to base upon the Nevada (SXCE) codebase, doing engineering work in addition to make it work for Indiana spins. SXCE is almost at build 100 right now, well 95 I believe for external users.
As many have talked about, the fonts in SXCE and S10 are better than in Indiana currently, at the expense of being patented/closed and at a license cost to Sun, but for users it's still the primary target for development. James -----Original Message----- From: Paul Gress <[email protected]> To: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Difference between Opensoalris Gnome and Java Desktop Gnome Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:49:41 -0400 Glynn Foster wrote: > > On 12/08/2008, at 3:04 PM, Paul Gress wrote: > >> Glynn Foster wrote: >>> Community Edition will continue until such a stage where IPS, SPARC >>> support and the new installer bits goes back into the mainline >>> Nevada gate. >>> >>> >>> >> So your telling me my program "Pro-Engineer" won't run soon (if SXCE is >> gone and only OpenSolaris exist). Pro-Engineer currently needs the >> closed binaries from Motif. If this is what is planned for Solaris 11, >> your going to break the binary compatibility. > > Those binaries will be available in some form, in a > non-redistributable package repository run by Sun that you will be > able to connect to and download. There are no formal plans for Solaris > 11 right now. > > > Glynn > > That works for me. The reason I'm not trying OpenSolaris now is the binary compatibility issue with Motif. If the binaries for Motif were supplied as a separate download it would solve all problems. Be sure to announce it well when it happens. Thanks, Paul _______________________________________________ desktop-discuss mailing list desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
