Manish Chakravarty wrote:
How stable is b62 compared to SXDE?
SXDE is "simply" b55-b with additional condiments, so I'm assuming your question is really along the lines of "how do b55-b and b62 compare"? And "Which one will crash less often?" (If you were instead just trying to identify the differences between the two, SXDE bundles more stuff on its install media than you get with the bare-bones download of B62.) OpenSolaris continues the Solaris "tradition" of trying to be release quality all the time. Sun's QA and PIT teams test each build (B55, B56,...,B60, B61...) to ensure that it meets their quality criteria - which include "not crashing" on a large and varied set of test systems. If a build doesn't pass those tests, bugs are filed and (if deemed appropriate) the build is respun, either with the bugfix or without the new feature(s) that caused the failures. This is where b55 turned into b55-b; it was a respin of b55. From that perspective, b62 is a reasonable replacement for b55-b - it passed the same QA and PIT testing, it has many bugs fixed that were open in b55-b, and it has new features. I'd say that it is just as crash-free as b55-b, if not more so. On the other hand, you should look at the list of open bugs in b62 to determine whether or not one of them would be a show-stopper for you. The changelog and flag day pages are also good indications of what is happening under the covers; they can be used to find out what b55-b bugs were fixed in b62... -John _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
