> The problem is that it was advertised that SXDE would > be produced every three months -- meaning that if you > installed 2008/01, there would be 2008/04, 2008/07, > etc, following. They did not say, "Install this and > then get stranded because it's the last of it's > kind". > > It sounds like the only upgrade path is use SXCE > builds which people attracted to SXDE didn't have any > interest in to begin with. Is Sun really not going > to provide any installer / instructions to get from > SXDE to openSolaris? Are they expecting us to wipe > the machine and start from scratch -- or just start > using the SXCE builds? The whole "big picture", > roadmap, whatever you call it is not visible. Where > is this all going and what are the milestone goals? > It just like people are making it up as they go > along and changing their minds every 6 months for > new direction.
This is probably not a very fair comment. It is quite clear that you've never used SXCE before, thus, again, I don't know how you could talk about SXCE as if it were so inferior? Before osol 2008.05 came out, we routinely installed every single build of SXCE (& the predecessors thereof). We also have SXDE on most machines in a multi-sliced configuration. However, since SXDE is usually several builds behind SXCE, we actually very seldom booted into SXDE. If Sun had infinite resources--something no one can claim to have nowadays, yes, it is desirable to have both SXCE and SXDE (& this and that). I know I am going to be stoned for saying this, but since for each SXDE there is always a corresponding SXCE build, I have always wondered why duplicate (& thus waste) precious resources. However, the issue about SXCE is its unpredictable quality, a consequence of too frequent updates. We used to have forum members who would report what SXCE's to avoid. For desktop users, B91 is a recommended upgrade for SXDE. In the future, I would suggest using the SXCE build which will form the basis for osol 08.11, which will be updated every six months. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
