What's the situation regarding SXCE and the new 2008.05 and future releases?
My understanding from what I've seen is that SXCE is a release made approximately every 2 weeks, and is based on the Nevada project. Again, my understanding of the 2008.05 release is that: 1. this will be released only every 6 months 2. it is based on the Indiana project 3. to get updates for fixes, new code etc, you will use IPS -- i.e. the pkg command (like the old Debian apt-get update... command) Does that sound correct, or not? Currently I'm using Nevada build 87 and presume I can continue to do so. As I wanted to use a single boot disk, I don't use Live Upgrade, and I do fresh installs with each release and just run a script of commands to make all my required changes. I know there is ZFS boot but I don't know enough about it yet and feel it might be a bit bleeding edge still. However, if I moved over to using 2008.05 (Indiana), I wonder if this would be a much better way to keep my system up to date with fixes etc. However, am I right in saying this is the first "real" release of Indian (non-Live CD)? If so, again, perhaps it will still be more bleeding edge than staying with Nevada. Any thoughts on all of these points would be good to hear. And if I made any blunders, feel free to correct me :) Also, from a code / features point of view, what are the main differences between Nevada and Inidiana (2008.05)? I know about IPS, and that sounds good, but what other things are there in Indiana that would make me want to switch to using it? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
