Ken Gunderson wrote:
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 11:27 -0800, Erik Trimble wrote:
What you describe is /EXACTLY/ what happens with Solaris 10. And will
happen in good time with Solaris Next (aka Solaris 11 or whatever it
gets called).
For now (and, likely even post-Solaris Next), OpenSolaris will remain
the "playground/sandbox" for development work, and as such, I can't see
any change from the current model - a "stable" release every 6-12
Regardless of whether any formal announcement coming down from on high
from corporate, I seem to recall that the plan for Indiana was for just
such 6 month releases. And so do a few others I've asked privately, so
I don't think I was hallucinating.
You weren't. The original goal was 6-month stable releases. Frankly,
the merger slowed things down quite a bit for the latest release, plus
there were some important things (i.e. ZFS dedup) that people indicated
would be Really Nice to have in this latest release (and consequently
pushed back the release).
6 months is a goal, not a firm commitment on anyone's part - this is
Development, not Release Engineering. :-)
months, with critical fixes in between for it, but end-users are
expected to upgrade to the latest "stable" when it comes out. I really
don't know what Oracle is going to do about possibly providing support
for OpenSolaris release versions - they're currently not renewing any
support contracts for them, but who knows. That all said, OpenSolaris
is by its very nature a development platform, and expecting long-term
support for various releases makes no sense. If you need stability, go
get Solaris 10.
I have. But I fear free security updates will soon become a thing of
the past. Am I missing something or has Oracle specifically addressed
this?
No, so far as I can tell, there has been no official statement from
Oracle management about exactly what the plan is for supporting
OpenSolaris as a distribution. It's an unknown. Then again, we're
still not "officially" Oracle at this point: it's still "Sun
Microsystems, Inc. , a whole-owned subsidiary of Oracle America,
Inc.". We don't become Oracle America for another two weeks, give or
take. It's all speculations at this point, and I suspect that there
won't be more firm comments (one way or the other) until later in
February, at the earliest.
That said, the fixes will always be out in the "dev" repository, so
getting them installed on a "stable" release isn't hard. It's not as
easy as having them directly available in the stable repos, but the
package is still available, even if Oracle decides to forgo updating the
stable repos.
[Note: I do NOT speak for Oracle, nor should statements made in this
email indicate commitments on the part of Oracle America or Sun
Microsystems]
--
Erik Trimble
Java System Support
Mailstop: usca22-123
Phone: x17195
Santa Clara, CA
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