Thank you for taking the time to explain :-) it would be really cool if opensolaris is ever made available for Sparcs!
On 7 Jul 2008, at 01:29, michael schuster <Michael.Schuster at Sun.COM> wrote: > 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'
