So Indiana will someday produce Indiana LTS, the long-awaited next "Major"
release of Solaris? (where Solaris 2.0 was the last "Major" release in our
official release taxonomy).
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Marc Hamilton wrote:
Alan, in a word, no,
Solaris as the LTS version of Indiana shouldn't restrict anything. It is
all a matter of timing. If you look at Ubuntu for comparison, their
first release was in October 2004. June 2006 was the first LTS version.
I haven't seen the community talk about dates for getting the first
release of Indiana out yet, but lets say it is October 2007. If we wait
until June 2010 to release the first LTS version, do you think
virtualization technology will be far enough along that those Solaris
users who have not yet switched to Indiana can just transparently
continue to run Solaris 10 in some sort of virtual domain on Indiana?
And, since unlike Ubuntu in 2006, we already have a LTS version of
Solaris, I'm not particularly worried if it takes Indiana a bit longer
to get to its first LTS.
On Jun 21, 2007, at 7:39 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Marc Hamilton wrote:
Alvaro,
Exactly, Solaris becomes the LTS version of Indiana.
Is that going to restrict how far Indiana is allowed to diverge
from Solaris then? Can Solaris be the LTS version of a distro
that has completely different packaging systems or a different
set of libraries and commands?
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Marc Hamilton
Vice President, Solaris Marketing, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Phone: (310)607-2450
http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton
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