Re: Migration to AMD and OpenSolaris

[email protected] wrote:
> Has anyone else made the leap? Thoughts on sparc and the future? I notice
> OpenSolaris is numbered "5.11" which seems to make it plain that it's the
> future according to Sun.
>   
Since I work for Sun in the x86 kernel group, obviously I have made the 
leap.  Mostly.

I say mostly because none of my personal sparc boxes are capable of 
running OpenSolaris (or even Solaris 10).  I run the latest public 
release of OpenSolaris on my personal x86 boxes (including an Intel Mac).

As far as OpenSolaris and "5.11", some of the names and the relationship 
between those names can be confusing.  There is OpenSolaris, the open 
source codebase based on Sun's Solaris codebase.

And then there is OpenSolaris, a distro of the OpenSolaris codebase.  
There have been three releases of OpenSolaris, the distro - 2008.05, 
2008.11 and 2009.06.  It uses the new installer and IPS package stuff 
and fits on a CD.

Another distro is Solaris Express Community Edition, which is a couple 
of build behind the current internal build.  This is also referred to by 
the internal codename Solaris Nevada.  This uses the old installer with 
everything on a DVD.

Other distros include BelenIX, Jaris, MartUX (for sparc), MilaX, 
NexentaOS and SchilliX.

Solaris 10 is not open source.  Right now, there is no such thing as 
Solaris 11.  Changing the 'uname -r' output to 5.11 was just an 
indication that it was the release is not 5.10 and was done before the 
decision to open source Solaris.

alan