Steve wrote: > how exactly do I use the imaging package system? > I've been running The nevadas ...
You could consider the "nevadas" to be the baseline reference system which is used to construct distros like Belenix, OpenSolaris, Nexenta, .... OpenSolaris 2008.05 was built on top of nevada build 86; I'd guess the next one (on a ~6mo release cycle, it is due soon) will be built on top of one of [99..102]. The OpenSolaris [he hunts for the right word - community, group, team, folks, pick one] take whatever nevada build they want to base their next release on, add their new and experimental special sauce (like ips, cayman installer, zfs root) and produce a new OpenSolaris iso. Once they are happy with their code, they put their additions and changes back into one of the various nevada consolidations (ON, install, SFW, ...) at which point the new features show up in the next nevada build. For IPS, that has not happened yet. -John
