Aaron Epps wrote:
> I'm just attempting to familiarize myself with how OpenSolaris differs from
> Fedora. For example, eventhought Fedora is a development project, they still
> release and make patches freely available without having to buy a support
> contract; of course if you buy RHEL then you do need to purchase a contract
> for updates. It appears that OpenSolaris doesn't offer patches in a similar
> matter, instead they cut new iso's every now and then, you boot your Solaris
> installation off of them and then perform an upgrade, is that correct?
New ISO's are made every two weeks - you can install the upgrade
by booting from them, or by using the live upgrade tool to copy
your current OS to a spare paritition and applying the upgrade to
that partition while you can continue using the system.
Providing an online package repository to get partial updates without
having to download the full CD or DVD set is one of the things under
discussion (including as part of the Project Indiana discussions).
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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