Charles Hedrick wrote:
> I admit that I'm little fuzzy about the organizational structure of
> Opensolaris. Is enough control in the community that at least Opensolaris
> will have security updates?
Security updates have always been freely available to those who follow the /dev
repository to get biweekly updates - you just get all the changes, including
new features and other bug fixes that have not gone through as much testing
yet, and not only security & other critical fixes.
And since the source is open for almost all of it, anyone in the community who
chose to do so could backport security updates to a stable branch in their copy
of the source gate and offer binaries built from that to other community members
- but in the almost two years since 2008.05 released, no community member or
members have stepped forward to do so - most just followed /dev or bought Sun
support for production machines they didn't want to follow /dev.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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