Hi James,

Just to clarify, As far as I know and people like me who is not too
technical know, Opensolaris work on top of Solaris Kernel.

Can I remove Solaris Express Developer Community edition completely and
install Opensolaris


Regards

Bijoy


On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:08 PM, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> bijoy writes:
> > I am very new to solaris, not from tech industry. However just want to
> learn
> > Solaris out of my personal interest. It would be great help if you can
> help
> > me on how to install opensolaris instead of Solaris 10.
>
> In that case, I'd certainly recommend OpenSolaris over S10.
>
> You can go to http://www.opensolaris.org/ and click on "learn more."
> The very first link goes to the download page.
>
> > Also just want to know What is opensolaris' advantage over solaris 10 for
> > users like me
>
> It's too many things to mention by a simple email message, but, in
> short, S10 is Sun's previous commercial release of Solaris, which was
> launched in 2005.  It has had several updates since then, but remains
> effectively a subset of what's in OpenSolaris.
>
> By contrast, OpenSolaris is the current system under development.  It
> includes more device drivers (particularly for x86 systems), newer
> features, and a bunch of other stuff.
>
> Inside Sun, the rule is that projects must integrate into the release
> under development (which is "Nevada" -- also OpenSolaris) and then
> "soak" before even being considered for inclusion in an older
> release.  And most new things are not permitted to be released on the
> older platform.
>
> --
> James Carlson, Solaris Networking              <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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