Shawn Walker wrote: > John wrote: >> Ken, >> That is pretty much my impression as well, that even SXCE is a walking dead >> man. >> I am okay with the SXDE/SXCE branches getting pruned as long as Sun provides >> a method to "live upgrade" from them to OpenSolaris. If they fail to do >> that, then SXDE/SXCE users were abandoned. The machine with SXDE is in use >> as a development server -- I can't just wipe it and reinstall openSolaris >> 2008/05 (or /11) > > As has been noted in the past, the SXDE and SXCE releases were > *development* releases. That means that they were not fully supported > releases. That's my understanding anyway... >
I would state it a bit differently. SXCE has been, and still is for the moment, the distribution used for development of the operating system. SXDE was a repackaging of SXCE to provide a somewhat easier-to-install platform for application development atop the OpenSolaris technology. It was a stopgap until the distribution known as OpenSolaris (aka Project Indiana) could be built, which is meant to be targeted more directly at that market. At this point in time we have no specific plans for upgrades from SXCE to OpenSolaris. That doesn't mean we won't, it just isn't a priority for development of the distribution right now, as it's primarily targeted at attracting people who haven't used Solaris before, who obviously don't face this problem. Sometime in 2009 we expect that the OpenSolaris distro will supercede SXCE as the distro used by Sun's engineering staff for development of OS technology. It may be that we'll need a transition/upgrade tool for that to happen, so we'll have to think about this there. There's a similar question of how (or whether) to upgrade Solaris 10 users, which has mostly the same technical problems, but the time frame for that is yet further out. In the meantime, Ed Pilatowicz posted a pretty detailed blog entry about how to transition: http://blogs.sun.com/edp/entry/moving_from_nevada_and_live The most helpful roadmap I can point you at is the one we discussed with the community a couple of months ago, see the Overview presentation on http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Indiana#OpenSolaris_Community_Strategy_Planning_Meeting I believe we will be having another community town hall session pretty soon where more discussion of the roadmap might occur. Dave _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
