Ray Clark writes: > I realize that paid support is what pays the bills, but I as a private > individual running a server for my family am not going to be paying for > support. I don't know what my employer does; hopefully "pays the bills".
In that case, I'd recommend using an OpenSolaris-based distribution instead. > So your statements to the effect of "No guarantees, but we DO trust it with > all of our stuff" creates a perspective that has some meat to it. However an > key part of your message as to compare it to "FCS", but I don't know what FCS > is! Please tell me! Sorry about that. FCS means "First Customer Ship." "FCS quality all the time" means that projects (and bug fixes and RFEs) are not allowed to integrate until they're _done_ -- which means testing and all reviews and fixes come first. We don't integrate things with the aim of testing them later ... otherwise, crucial internal servers (such as jurassic.sfbay and even the onnv.sfbay gate machine) suddenly become guinea pigs. You might get away with that a few times, but eventually your luck will run out, and you (the developer) will have a very bad day. > As far as updates are concerned, if I remember correctly SXDE makes two > partitions so that you can update one and still have the old to fall back on. > This is a very valuable feature. Yes. You can do the same on S10, but it doesn't install by default that way. > I have a feeling that I am going to be scraping everything and installing > SXDE this afternoon. It appears that it would be a better way to go on > balance. I'd suggest so, particularly for a home machine. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
