vuthecuong wrote:
- Solaris Express, Community Edition - Solaris Express, Developer Edition
Both are Sun distros based on OpenSolaris. Solaris Express, Community Edition is a bi-weekly build; it is almost a mechanical process performed every Friday. If you want the absolute latest release, and you are comfortable living on the edge, this is for you. Solaris Express, Developer Edition is a manual effort that evaluates the "best of the last several CE releases", runs a set of go/no-go tests on it, adds additional features (not all open sourced...) and releases it all as a Sun supportable product. It used to be called simply Solaris Express, or "SX". If you are a bit risk-adverse, or don't care about living on the cutting edge, this may be a good choice. BOTH are used frequently and easily by OS.o developers, but don't forget about the other distros either - see the info about them copy/pasted below. -John From the OS.o Downloads page (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/) If you want to run a distribution based on OpenSolaris, choose one of these available options: Solaris Express, Community Edition Solaris Express, Community Edition is Sun's binary release for OpenSolaris developers (code named "Nevada"). It is built from the latest OpenSolaris source and additional technology that has not been published in the OpenSolaris source base. This release is unsupported. Developers can build the OpenSolaris source by using this release as the base system. It is updated every other Friday. Solaris Express, Developer Edition Solaris Express, Developer Edition is Sun's tested release built from the OpenSolaris bits and additional technology that has not been published in the OpenSolaris source base. For additional details, including support options, see the Developer Edition site. There is no charge for this release. The Deveoper Edition is released every three to four months and replaces the Solaris Express monthly release. BeleniX BeleniX is a *NIX distribution that is built using the OpenSolaris source base. It is currently a LiveCD distribution but is intended to grow into a complete distro that can be installed to hard disk. marTux marTux is the first non-Solaris Express/Solaris Express Community Release OpenSolaris distribution for SPARC (sun4u for now, sun4v later). NexentaOS NexentaOS is a complete GNU-based free and open source operating system built on top of the OpenSolaris kernel and runtime. NexentaOS integrates OpenSolaris (SunOS kernel) and Open Source Software (OSS) applications - a foundation that combines the best of both worlds. SchilliX SchilliX is an OpenSolaris based UNIX Live CD and distribution for the x86, x64 and EM64T architectures. The current release is based on Nevada Build 17 and higher. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
