Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> The next Solaris release will be based on OpenSolaris. Solaris 10 is
>> the current Solaris release.
>
> So ... You're saying ...
> Solaris 10, and all of its various versions (10/09, 5/09, 10/08, 5/08, etc)
> are not based on opensolaris.
Yes. OpenSolaris was started after the Solaris 10 release, with the current
code base under development for the following release.
> But some day they may decide to create "Solaris 11" or whatever they might
> want to call it, and that would be based on opensolaris.
That's the plan we've been working to since 2005.
> In the meantime, as opensolaris is constantly evolving, are the current
> opensolaris developments being migrated or merged into solaris 10 in any
> way?
Many have - features like ZFS that are in Solaris 10 now went in to OpenSolaris
first. Sun's policy is that new features and fixes planned for Solaris 10
should (except in special cases, such as changes to software that was removed
from Solaris after Solaris 10) go into the development branch (aka OpenSolaris)
first, and after "soak time" there to find & fix bugs, be backported to Solaris
10.
Many will not - they're too disruptive to introduce to the stable enterprise
release, or are a feature that was decided is best introduced in the next
release of Solaris. (After all, if everything in Solaris 11 was backported to
Solaris 10, why would anyone upgrade to Solaris 11 when it came out?)
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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