On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Glenn Lagasse<glenn.laga...@sun.com> wrote: > * Anon Y Mous (music_anal...@yahoo.com) wrote: >> Did you try installing it on an Solaris Express Community Edition >> (SXCE)? I suspect Oracle products run better on Solaris Express than >> they do on OpenSolaris Indiana because Solaris Express has a user-land >> that is more traditional, like Solaris 10. The advantage of using SXCE >> over Solaris 10 is that SXCE has most of the same new cutting features >> that OpenSolaris Indiana has (Crossbow, etc.) while maintaining better >> backwards compatibility with Solaris 10 than OpenSolaris Indiana does: > > Please don't spread FUD. OpenSolaris ships with the exact same userland > as Solaris Express (with some exceptions such as technologies which are > being replaced, live upgrade for one). The only difference is the > inclusion of GNU tools prepended to the default user's path. > > SXCE as previously communicated is going away. That isn't going to > change. So, steering people towards using it at this time is a > disservice imho. Why people think OpenSolaris is so much different from > Solaris Express boggles my mind. The changes between the two (outside > of Installation and packaging) are so minute as to be almost > unmeasurable. > people keep saying there are few changes, but nonne said which are those i can name only a few
-/bin/sh is no longer solaris' sh -/bin/ksh is now ksh93 -the default shell for users is now bash (I'm not sure about this one) -the default PATH now includes the gnu tools on top (please, please, we need a switch in the installer for this, we cannot have a set of tools that do not support zfs acls and zfs) -the default crypto algorithm for password changed (it was still __unix__ last time i used SXCE which was a long time ago) -the default tool to manage packages is now pkg(5) -LU is now dead -some closed source drivers are not included -jumpstart is dead -no text based installer what else? nacho _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
