David Lloyd wrote:
Sun Solaris is Sun's distribution of OpenSolaris. Period.
Now I'm confused.
I have a system that I first downloaded by getting the ON consolidation
from:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/
I got the Open Systems/Networking consolidation described as "ON
includes the kernel, networking services and system libraries and
commands."
I've been following a BFU upgrade from those listed at:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/
I tell people that I use the OpenSolaris ON consolidation plus updates.
1. Is this what I'm actually using?
2. Does it actually have a formal name?
3. Am I using Solaris Express (but because I haven't noticed it called
this, I don't know that yet)?
Personally, a short explanation of what is at the ON download page, and
what it is officially called, might be useful to some.
I know that it's not "just" a very barebones kernel distribution
[there's *6* CDs - if a barebone kernel installation took*6* CDs I'd be
worried] but it doesn't actually say I have "Solaris Express". I
probably don't - but if I don't what *do* I say I have without confusing
anyone including myself?
You are probably using Solaris Express Community Release, which is Sun's
"fast-moving target" distribution of OpenSolaris. You've been doing BFU
upgrades, which mean you are even more bleeding edge.
It's not actually called "Solaris Express" or "Solaris Express Community
Release" within the distro anywhere, instead it probably referred to
itself as snv_?? to denote which build it came from.
A Linux analogy here would be if you ran Fedora Core 4, with some newer
kernel RPM installed. How would you describe what you have to others?
You would say exactly that "I'm running FC4 with kernel 2.6.foo"
In your case, I would say "I'm running SXCR b51 with ON build 53"
(replace b51 with whatever build of SXCR you downloaded, and 53 with
whatever version of ON you BFU'd)
cheers,
steve
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