As for OpenSolaris, the way to update Solaris Express is to upgrade to the next release, or depending on your environment, do a BFU (Blindingly Fast Update). Contrary to all the Joyent propaganda, Sun has never claimed this to be the production depoyment thing to do, and I wholeheartedly agree with them. Considering the environment where I work, anything even remotely "developer-like" would get a production signoff when hell freezes over. And rightly so! Could BFU be more stable and convenient for a common OpenSoalris user as
me? I eventually gave up using OpenSolaris and back to Linux after this tool had broken some of my blastwave packages for quite a few times. Since then, for most time, I've been happy with my Ubuntu, except for one or two cases it couldn't boot due to the problem the kernel version was not suitable for my machine. Unlike OpenSolaris/Solaris, with Ubuntu, I never worry/care about the installed packages/kernels: System automatically keeps them up to date. Whenever the system notifies my some updates are available, I'm excited: ha, there are some important stuffs coming, let me update them! After done, I would be satisfied: yeah, my system is up to date! it is more stable than before! it has some cool features! -- In fact, perhaps it might be more vulnerable than before. That is saying, I've been feeling happy with it just because it's very convenience and improving continuously. People like change they can see. Sun developers always try to build an unbreakable OS, it's a great work indeed; However, things are always changing, people loves simplicity, convenience, better-and-better. The best thing is to create a completely solid OS, and never change it if the (hardware) environment is not changed; But we need to face and welcome the changes, since so many people (user) enjoy them. Ubuntu uses apt to satisfy the "change" requirement, and Fedora uses yum to please people. Now, the problem is: What does OpenSolaris use to help users like me to enjoy these "welcome" changes, so we needn't have to be patient for 2 years for the next release of Solaris that only supports those hardware 2 years ago? (yes, I know Nexenta is one, but could Sun do better?) -- yours, Rick
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