On 09/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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?
There are a few problems with this statement. 1) You are making the assumption that the Express editions somehow match the released versions of Fedora Core, etc. They don't. Solaris Express editions are more like "Distribution Release X Test X." They are preview / test releases, not normal "production" releases. So trying to compare their frequency release to say, Ubuntu's or RedHat's, is not appropriate. In reality, the released versions of Solaris (8, 9, 10, etc.) are a closer equivalent to the major releases of enterprise Linux distributions. I would say the Update releases of Solaris 10, (Update 1, 2, and 3 so far) are closer to the Ubuntu point releases though far more stable change-wise. 2) Depends on which edition you are talking about. Solaris Express Developer Edition is released quarterly, and the Community Edition, roughly fortnightly (every two weeks). 3) Unlike Linux, Solaris is a complete operating system. This means that, yes, you can easily upgrade Linux because it is just a kernel, fairly frequently without changing anything in userland except drivers. Solaris, unlike Linux, is a complete operating system and brings together many pieces to perform an integrated platform. Because of this, you can't necessarily take a kernel from one version and plop it into another and expect all of userland to magically work, though I suspect it would work in many cases depending on the changes. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
