On Tuesday 23 May 2006 18:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Within Sun's software developement, we use something called "binding" > >determined by our architectural review committees to help determine > >the appropriate releases such a change can target. Nevada > > (OpenSolaris/S11) is micro binding right now - so bigger changes can go > > in there that cannot go into an update (which are "patch" binding, since > > the updates are essentially made up of patches). It's all based on > > interface changes & ability to backout or not use a feature. > > I thought Nevada was back to minor already (that's why we switched from > 5.10.1 to 5.11 at some point)
Hmm, my understanding was that Nevada would be the basis on which Solaris 11 would be based upon; and by the time Solaris 11 shipped, all the components (barring some drivers) will be completely opensource; xorg for the xserver, opensolaris for the core and JDS for the default desktop. Matty _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
