Yiannis Mavroukakis wrote: >>> Sorry I mean 2008.05...How thick of me I didn't realise 2008.05 >>> didn't do Sparc..Is there anything >>> equivalent I can use? >> Solaris 10 is available for free here: >> http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp although it's not at the >> same level as OpenSolaris and still uses the traditional Solaris >> installer, you can certainly do tons of useful stuff with Solaris 10 >> as well! >> >> HTH >> Michael > Hi Michael, > > Thanks for your reply :=) What exactly do you mean by "not on the same > level" ?
I was afraid you'd ask ;-) Solaris development currently happens in Nevada (SunOS 5.11), of which OpenSolaris is a kind of release (don't nail me down on the terminology here!) - it also has a few features Nevada doesn't have, most notably the IPS packaging system (this is going to change, I believe). Solaris 10 is the previous release, but it's still being maintained and a lot of features from Nevada have been backported to Solaris 10 (fixes as well, of course). note however that Solaris 10 is not opensolaris, and support for Solaris 10 does not happen on these email lists. I thought there was a way to download a semi-current build of Nevada (basically a snapshot), but I can't find it anymore ... maybe someone else can provide a pointer. HTH Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
