> Hi, > > While searching for details of Solaris 10 update 9, I > found the following on > http://sparcv9.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html > > Extract > > Solaris Next not OpenSolaris? > Many of us have patiently been awaiting the 2010.xx > release of OpenSolaris frustrated by the lack of > communication from Oracle. After some digging I > realized that something quite interesting has been > going on for a while. Oracle themselves are not > building OpenSolaris anymore, not since build 135. > They are building "Solaris Next Development", this is > from /etc/release: > > Solaris Next Development snv_140 X86 > Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All > rights reserved. > Assembled 29 April 2010 > > This kind of makes sense, since OpenSolaris always > have been the development branch for the > Solaris.next, but the distributions have been named > OpenSolaris for a while. I also found some tags like > "osol_2010.05u4" which seems to be related to build > 140. So have there been a change in plan for > OpenSolaris 2010.xx release or is this just something > for the future, "Solaris 11". But since build > 134[a|b] which once should have been the release > build for the next release still has the old names in > them there might sill be a "OpenSolaris" release.
awesome, I guess solaris 11 is on it's way. I think this was explained before here at opensolaris forums: quote: Don't make the mistake of thinking that OpenSolaris is going to somehow be "finished" at some point, and *then* become "product". Sure, it's the development branch, but it's also where Solaris Next will come from (i.e. Oracle will fork off a branch of the current OpenSolaris distro and use that as the basis for Solaris Next, while OpenSolaris will continue along happily). If I had to guess (and I'm going to, though I have no specific knowledge of this), I'd say that the OpenSolaris distro actually gets the lions share of development resources - Solaris 10 is in maintenance mode, and thus the only work going on for it is bugfixes and backports from OpenSolaris for a limited set of features. http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=131291&tstart=15 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
