Aaron Epps wrote: > So, is it correct that Indiana is newer than Nevada? From what I understand, > it appears that Nevada is based on Solaris 10 and that most of the > development is focused on Indiana, is this correct? Will Indiana eventually > become Solaris 11? > > I don't know about that. Here's my (and only my) take:
Nevada(NV) is the code base where Sun is working on the (N)ext (V)ersion of (Sun) Solaris. Much of it's Sources are available in OpenSolaris. Those sources that are available are the base of all the OpenSolaris distributions. NV seems to be where all the main Solaris development is going on, both in and out side of Sun. Solaris Express (both Community - SXCE, and Developer - SXDE Editions) are the way that Sun Distributes NV. Note that SXCE and SXDE contain all of NV: the parts that are available in OpenSolaris, the parts that aren't yet available in OpenSolaris, and the parts that will never be in OpenSolaris. As far as ZFS boot goes, I beleive that is planned for NV in one of the next few builds. Indiana(IN) is Sun's first OpenSolaris Distribution. Like other OpenSolaris Distributions, It is based *only* on the software that has been made available to the OpenSolaris Community. My take is that IN is supposed to become the supported OpenSolaris Distribution for developers to use to develop OpenSolaris itself (making OpenSolaris self-supporting) and when it does so, it will eliminate the need for SXDE to be separate from SXCE (though SXCE will still exist to be a preview of Sun Solaris.) IN is currently a 'preview-release' and as such the development teams have taken advantage of this to make public some changes they feel are worth getting community feedback on. How many and which of these changes a) remain in IN, b) get integrated into OpenSolaris, or c) find there way into Sun Solaris remains to be seen. -Kyle > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss >
