On 09/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Most of your confusion seems to stem around not > understanding the > updates are handled differently for the Community > and Developer > releases of Solaris than the "official" release. Thanks Shawn. I was trying to point that the current methods available do not fly against what is available elsewhere. This is not a case of doing it the linux way...it is a case of doing it in a way that is practical and manageable.
People have been managing quite fine for years, so I think your definition of practical and mangeable must differ quite a bit from what others define.
> The official release has an update manager that > provides new driver, > fixes, patches, etc. The Community and Developer > releases do not; if > you want to upgrade with those, you use the upgrade > functionality > provided by the installer with each new release. > So Open Solaris/Solaris 10 is not quite ready for production then? I guess it is hard to
You are confused. Solaris 10 is an "official" release of Solaris, and has the update manager I mentioned. It is quite ready for production, is in production, and is used by companies everyday that depend on it for mission critical applications. The *testing* releases such as Solaris Express Developer / Community Edition, are not officially intended for production though many people find they are more than stable enough to use in production.
tell...unsupported version don't have the tools, supported version has tools but I am not sure that they are quite what I would want to manage clusters of boxes or maybe even a single box if i am paranoid...
I encourage you to read up more on Sun Connection about the tools that adminsitrators have for managing updates: "Sun Connection is a Solaris and Linux life cycle management tool that allows customers to provision new systems, manage their updates and configuration changes, and eventually re-deploy systems for new purpose." http://www.sun.com/service/sunconnection/index.jsp
What is open solaris' goal I wonder...to be everywhere on servers...desktops...or ???
I encourage you to read the General FAQ on the OpenSolaris.org website to learn more and have a better understanding of what OpenSolaris and Solaris is and the differences between them: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/general_faq/#whatis -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
