Re: [osol-discuss] advise on opensolaris version to be used

2011-02-03 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
From: Matthias Pfützner [mailto:matth...@pfuetzner.de] Just a small correction. It's NOT closed source, it's still open source, BUT: The source will only be published AFTER the commercial binary release! So: It's closed development, but NOT closed source! You're the only person

[osol-discuss] advise on opensolaris version to be used

2011-02-02 Thread Malayo
Hi, I'm a linux+system implementer user for about 3 years. I'm trying to learn using Solaris and I had downloaded opensolaris iso osol-0906-x86.iso. Is this the latest version of opensolaris? If not which version should i use? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] advise on opensolaris version to be used

2011-02-02 Thread Erik Trimble
On 2/2/2011 3:40 AM, Malayo wrote: Hi, I'm a linux+system implementer user for about 3 years. I'm trying to learn using Solaris and I had downloaded opensolaris iso osol-0906-x86.iso. Is this the latest version of opensolaris? If not which version should i use? OpenSolaris is dead. Long

Re: [osol-discuss] advise on opensolaris version to be used

2011-02-02 Thread Dmitry G. Kozhinov
Is this the latest version of opensolaris? If not which version should i use? Since Oracle's acquisition of Sun, There will be no more updates to the free OpenSolaris distribution. The new version is Oracle Solaris 11 (Express), which is not free for production use. The OpenIndiana project

Re: [osol-discuss] advise on opensolaris version to be used

2011-02-02 Thread Umarzuki Bin Mochlis Moktar
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 04:03 -0800, Erik Trimble wrote: On 2/2/2011 3:40 AM, Malayo wrote: Hi, I'm a linux+system implementer user for about 3 years. I'm trying to learn using Solaris and I had downloaded opensolaris iso osol-0906-x86.iso. Is this the latest version of opensolaris?

Re: [osol-discuss] advise on opensolaris version to be used

2011-02-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Erik Trimble OpenSolaris is dead. Long Live OpenSolaris! Hey, that's my line! ;-) This is going to be a bit confusing, but here are things you need to know: I'm going to

Re: [osol-discuss] advise on opensolaris version to be used

2011-02-02 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (Edward Ned Harvey) wrote: Solaris 11 Express is the closed-source oracle replacement for opensolaris. It is free for some purposes. Read the license terms to see if it's suitable for you. What it basically boils down to is that it's free for development work, but not free for

Re: [osol-discuss] advise on opensolaris version to be used

2011-02-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com wrote: (4) A fork of the OpenSolaris codebase (using the last-publicly-available development code) is the IllumOS project, which other distributions are using as their future codebase. See below for more information about the IllumOS project:

Re: [osol-discuss] advise on opensolaris version to be used

2011-02-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Matthias Pfützner [mailto:matth...@pfuetzner.de] Just a small correction. It's NOT closed source, it's still open source, BUT: The source will only be published AFTER the commercial binary release! So: It's closed development, but NOT closed source! You're the only person who believes

Re: [osol-discuss] advise on opensolaris version to be used

2011-02-02 Thread Brian Utterback
On 02/02/11 12:10, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: Matthias Pfützner [mailto:matth...@pfuetzner.de] Just a small correction. It's NOT closed source, it's still open source, BUT: The source will only be published AFTER the commercial binary release! So: It's closed development, but NOT closed

Re: [osol-discuss] advise on opensolaris version to be used

2011-02-02 Thread Matthias Pfützner
No, it isn't! It's the EXPRESS Version, not the GA version! There are differences! Matthias Am 02.02.2011 um 18:10 schrieb Edward Ned Harvey opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com: From: Matthias Pfützner [mailto:matth...@pfuetzner.de] Just a small correction. It's NOT closed

Re: [osol-discuss] advise on opensolaris version to be used

2011-02-02 Thread Edward Martinez
I will try to play with OpenSolaris version 0906 for a while and maybe later check out Solaris 11 Express and other OpenSolaris based distros. I think the front page should notify new users their won't be any more opensolaris binary distro releases. opensolaris 2010.05 was the last