You can think of open solaris relates to solaris as fedora is to red hat Linux. It is a test bed for the future releases of solaris. Open Solaris is both x86 and sparc. Last year they were saying that most of a release of open solaris this year would become solaris 11. I am not sure if this roadmap will hold given the Oracle purchase of sun.
See http://www.opensolaris.com/ and http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/ I was told that one could buy support from sun for a subset of the Open Solaris releases. len -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lloyd Dieter Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 12:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] Open Solaris? I'm not a Solaris type, so I need to ask...is Open Solaris the same as Solaris x86? Trying to find out if the Solaris x86 client will work on Open Solaris, or if is something different altogether. Thanks, -Lloyd
