--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan > wrote: > > > Yes, I know this. You still have not however > answered > > my question about where do I find a binary package > or > > a source tarball for the si3124 driver. > > It's included in the latest stuff, grab Solaris > Express and it's in there, > AFAIK.
I know the driver is in since at least b55. that is what nexenta 'elatte' is based on and the reason I took the dive to use open solaris for the backup server for the company I work for. > > > Not everyone wants to maintain their own kernel or > > what not. > > So, how is this different on Linux than OpenSolaris? > Linux actually > requires that you rebuild many of the drivers and > other kernel modules for > the specific version of the kernel you're using. > That doesn't seem good. Most people do not rebuild their kernels. I cannot say much for drivers but if it is a server box they are running I'd say they would not rebuild any driver either. Why? Somebody does the rebuild for them with quality assurance and they are either happy to donate/pay money to those people and benefit from their work or to just make use of what has been offered with no strings attached. As an example you can look at Redhat (paid), centos (voluntary donations), ubuntu (choice of paid/voluntary donations), fedora (no donation/paid arrangement to project/distro). Linux kernels and its included drivers are available in a single package which can be upgraded with a single command and if need be, related userland tools/packages will be upgraded/installed too. No dist-upgrade this. Just a network enabled update of kernel and related userland tools. No stuff in CD and run upgrade. For those who actually do their own custom kernel maintenance, they get it done on their build box and then create the necessary packages, put those packages in their local repository and viola, all boxes using that repository can update their kernels and related userland tools right away without the need to have someone walk over and insert a CD. Solaris Express releases appear to be quite frequent. I don't think that a lot of the stuff that comes on the CD has any changes from previous releases and so I really doubt that going from b59->b61 is a dist-upgrade. Dist-upgrade in Linux land really means this distro version and that distro version are not compatible be it at the ABI level or otherwise such as different versions of libraries related to the desktop provided and so programs are not expected to work without some special handling if at all. nexenta's apt update through its repository of alpha6 based on b50 to its 'elatte' b55 is not a dist-upgrade but an update of every single package. At most I saw Solaris kernel packageS being downloaded for installation. So if you tell me that things between b59 and b61 will get broken then I really need that network enabled dist-upgrade. Fedora is bad enough at 6 months for a dist-upgrade, Solaris Express is like once a month or at least once a quarter? Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
