Jensen Lee wrote:
Windows 7: Requires at least 1Ghz CPU, 1 GB RAM,
MacOS "Snow Leopard": only supports Intel Macs - no
WinXP? That is hardly the latest Windows - I doubt
that machine runs Vista
or Windows 7. You'll be able to run Solaris 10 for
many years to come on
your workstation - that would be similar to running
True, however my WinXP laptop that I use only to browse the Internet from the
bathroom runs the latest version of Firefox. Something that appears to be hard
business for a Unix/Solaris/Linux workstation! To get the latest Firefox you
have to upgrade the whole system. And that of course applies to several other
applications, not just Firefox.
Be careful in your assumptions there.
You confuse having depository/repository access to a program, with being
able to install the program manually. Remember that Windows (any flavor)
doesn't have software repos - this is a feature that Linux/OpenSolaris
has above and beyond that of Windows.
Yes, WinXP will run the latest Firefox. So will Solaris 10 (for that
matter, Solaris 9, as well). For that matter, you should be able to
trivially install it on a Linux as far back as 1999. In all cases,
you'll have to download the installer from www.mozilla.org and install
it yourself. Very rarely with Linux and extremely rarely Solaris do
you need to update anything else to get a new program installer to work.
What OpenSolaris (and Linux) aren't going to do is keep refreshing old
release repositories indefinitely. So, at some point, you lose the
ability to use the nice OpenSolaris/Linux software installer tool to get
the latest version of <programX>. It can hardly be any other way.
--
Erik Trimble
Java System Support
Mailstop: usca22-123
Phone: x17195
Santa Clara, CA
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