* Chung Hang Christopher Chan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: SNIP
> > > > The official release has an update manager that > > provides new driver, > > fixes, patches, etc. The Community and Developer > > releases do not; if > > you want to upgrade with those, you use the upgrade > > functionality > > provided by the installer with each new release. > > > > So Open Solaris/Solaris 10 is not quite ready for > production then? I guess it is hard to > tell...unsupported version don't have the tools, > supported version has tools but I am not sure that > they are quite what I would want to manage clusters of > boxes or maybe even a single box if i am paranoid... Whether or not Solaris (of any flavor) is suitable for *your* use is up to *you* to decide. But to say that it's not ready for production use as a general statement is clearly false. Solaris 10 is in production in countless places (and more every day). For that matter, OpenSolaris (or rather Solaris Express which is based on parts OpenSolaris) is in production use as well (though doing so does require a bit more planning/sysadmin attention/knowledge/experience etc). Just ask Joyent about that (to name just one company I'm aware of). They're running their entire business off of essentially OpenSolaris code and, as far as I can tell, being pretty successful at it. > nexenta has the tools but it is a bit on the late > side, needs some more help, uses gcc + gnu ld on sun c > library and has no extensive stability record that sun > cc compiled and sun ld linked stuff have. > > What is open solaris' goal I wonder...to be everywhere > on servers...desktops...or ??? OpenSolaris/Solaris has always been a general-purpose OS. That said, it does excel at certain things more so than others. Scalaing/Stability come to mind for instance. Over time, Sun makes improvements to areas that are lacking. For instance, there is the Network AutoMagic project going on in the Networking community to make the configuration/administration of network interfaces more on par with things like Mac OS, Network Manager on Linux, etc. With OpenSolaris the hope is that improvements such as this will come faster as we involve the community. Cheers, -- Glenn Lagasse Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems, Inc. x21293, 781-442-1293 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
