Victoria Muntean writes: > I have several questions to understand how versioning of opensolaris works.
Unfortunately, the question you're asking doesn't really have a clear answer. (It seems you're basing your questions on the Linux kernel numbering scheme and, no, we don't do things quite that way.) Solaris has had two Major releases: those were the very first SunOS release decades ago, which was BSD-based, and the Solaris 2.0 SVr4-based release. Since 2.0 (which was a long time ago as well; circa 1992), we've had only Minor releases. Even Solaris 10 is technically a Minor (compatible) release. The current bits under development on opensolaris.org are code-named Nevada, and the current rules for integration (into OS-Net, the core of the operating system) specify that projects must have Minor release "binding" -- meaning compatible changes. The source code could be compiled to produce a "Solaris 11" (another Minor release) at any time, but I know of no current plans to do so. (And if I did, this probably wouldn't be the right venue to talk about it anyway.) The key issue, though, that makes your questions unanswerable is that versioning is up to *distributors*. Those who create distributions based on OpenSolaris are free to choose content (and create local changes as well) that represent a range of possible release bindings and thus completely different numbering schemes. Nobody in OpenSolaris really has the power to force a distributor into one version numbering scheme or another. Or any at all. That includes the "uname" output, which distributors may (and probably should) change to suit local tastes. The default output says "5.11," but since that's not part of any released Sun product[1], that may well be untrue. > 1. Are version numbers of Opensolaris and version number of Solaris line > synchronized, or separate ? Neither. There's currently no version numbering (other than Mercurial changeset numbers) going on with OpenSolaris. > 2. Where can I see timeline of releases, by recent years, of Opensolaris and > of Solaris, with version numbers ? You can't see any for OpenSolaris, but for Solaris, google finds many references. A good one is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Operating_System Some of the distributions (such as Sun's "Solaris Express Community Edition") have a build number that's based on the biweekly builds done by the Sun release engineers. Some distributions seem to follow that build numbering scheme, but nobody really compels any distributor to use it. For the biweekly schedule used in OS-Net, see: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/schedule/ > 3. Are version number of the kernels separate from version numbers of > distros, or same ? Are version number of Opensolaris kernels synchronized > with version numbers of SOlaris kernels, or separate ? > > 4. Is whole solaris kernel opensourced, or only parts of kernel ? See: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/roadmap/conslist/ There are only a very few things (such as CDE) that aren't available due to licensing problems. (And, no, we generally can't do anything about those few unavailable parts. Complaining upstream would be more productive. :-<) [1] There are murky areas here, such as OpenSolaris Developer Preview, that I don't understand. -- 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
