Thank you. I feel this clearly and concisely summarizes the role of opensolaris vs solaris. It explains a lot that I've wondered about, and really makes the relationship clear and simple to understand.
Now I'll go tell my colleagues, because I doubt they understand it so well either. ;-) > Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > >> The next Solaris release will be based on OpenSolaris. Solaris 10 > is > >> the current Solaris release. > > > > So ... You're saying ... > > Solaris 10, and all of its various versions (10/09, 5/09, 10/08, > 5/08, etc) > > are not based on opensolaris. > > Yes. OpenSolaris was started after the Solaris 10 release, with the > current > code base under development for the following release. > > > But some day they may decide to create "Solaris 11" or whatever they > might > > want to call it, and that would be based on opensolaris. > > That's the plan we've been working to since 2005. > > > In the meantime, as opensolaris is constantly evolving, are the > current > > opensolaris developments being migrated or merged into solaris 10 in > any > > way? > > Many have - features like ZFS that are in Solaris 10 now went in to > OpenSolaris > first. Sun's policy is that new features and fixes planned for > Solaris 10 > should (except in special cases, such as changes to software that was > removed > from Solaris after Solaris 10) go into the development branch (aka > OpenSolaris) > first, and after "soak time" there to find & fix bugs, be backported to > Solaris > 10. > > Many will not - they're too disruptive to introduce to the stable > enterprise > release, or are a feature that was decided is best introduced in the > next > release of Solaris. (After all, if everything in Solaris 11 was > backported to > Solaris 10, why would anyone upgrade to Solaris 11 when it came out?) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
