Thanks for the reply. The feature I am most interested in is the new package management that can resolve dependencies, and can download packages from a remote server. After setting up a new zone in Solaris 10, I tried to install packages and got so lost in dependency hell I had to stop. Hopefully the new package management feature will be available in a future Solaris 10 update. Then we won't need to install the "Entire Software Group" on production servers which includes games, office productivity, graphics editing, etc.
I'm also looking forward to using ZFS on my boot/root partition. I don't plan on using Indiana until it is released this spring. Would you say it will be production ready then? Once it is released I will give it a try in a server environment (just for testing). Thanks, Ryan Eric J. Ray wrote: > > Ryan, > > I don't think that anyone knows when the next version > of Solaris will ship. Certainly I don't have any reason > to think that it's imminent (read within the next 12 > months). > > Indiana is currently focused much more on the desktop > side, although there's work in progress/being planned > to work on building out the enterprise side of Install > support. At any rate, it's very much in the Developer > Preview stages--I don't think that anyone would advise > putting it into an enterprise/production environment > just yet. > > Eric > > > Ryan de Laplante wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The project roa map doesn't go beyond December 2007: >> >> https://opensolaris.org/os/about/roadmap/ >> >> Does anyone have a rough idea when we might see the final release of >> Solaris 11? Will it be before 2009? >> >> What about this Project Indiana distribution, does it target >> production servers too or just desktop computers? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Ryan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> install-discuss mailing list >> install-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > >
