On Sun, 2 May 2021, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
My personal preference is for "all known bugs fixed" release points. If someone wants to track changes more often then the "pkg update" mechanism provides that.
The "all known bugs fixed" release points are not even remotely possible given the rolling build/release model. The release is just a snapshot in time. Even major Linux distributions and FreeBSD are not able to accomplish what you describe. The internal processes that Sun used to internally test and "bake" a release for a couple of years are not possible.
Solaris was created to merge Sys V and BSD. So everyone else created OSF/1, though only DEC shipped it. At this point Sys V and BSD compatibility is moot. Sun was the last vendor standing, but not for much longer. Sys V only lives on in Solaris and Illumos so far as I know.
Linux was a functional clone of SunOS/Solaris for quite a long time. It is only relatively recently that it is not, given transitions to things like 'udev'/'systemd', and trying to get rid of X11.
ZFS was at one time a compelling reason to stick with OI, but that's no longer the case. It's actually now better documented in FreeBSD.
Perhaps you are talking about the FreeBSD Handbook rather than the software implementation. I am not encountering any issues with the OI manual pages or the software. The OI Wiki is another story altogether.
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