Robert wrote:
Guys, thanks for a fast responce!
I see that this thread took a slight turn from my original question, however I
think that Stephens answer was the one I was (not?) looking for.
So if Stephens statement is accurate in that the Express/Community regulary
releases are Sun's distribution of at-that-time OpenSolaris latest builds (i.e.
like RedHat and Debian do distributions of Linux?), then I've failed to
understand the relationship between OpenSolaris and SolarisExpress from the
very beginning :-(
Maybe the faq should be clearer on this, including a section/links with the
different distributions that are around, since many people not being developers
or IT-specialists would come to this site/forum as a n00b.
The reason for my initial confusion was that SolarisExpress is needed to
install OpenSolaris and you need to have a quite new build of it for BFU'ing.
As a IT-architect/developer it is important for me to understand new technology
as soon as it breathes some air (in one way or another) like zfs and brand-z,
so therefore I want to maintain an up-to-date system with the latest
bling-blings, but I don't want to re-install the system all the time, rather
just updating it if at all possible.
I can however wait a couple of few weeks (but not too long) using
SolarisExpress rather than BFU if that should do the trick?
If you can wait a few weeks, and you're taking into account the fact
that BFU is ON only, then I think it just boils down to personal
preference. BFU'ing causes less heartburn than doing a fresh install for
some people, while for other people doing a fresh install causes less
heartburn than doing a BFU.
And if waiting (a couple or few weeks) causes heartburn, then there's a
3rd category: For some people, doing a fresh install is preferable to
BFU, but not by much, so they use BFU because then they don't have a
wait to be running the latest bits.
Eric
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