On 02/ 7/11 06:11 AM, Mike Suchodolski wrote:
> The Oracle distros are worthless to me if there's no security patches
> available.
There are security patches available - just like for OpenSolaris 2008.05,
2008.11, and 2009.06, you can get security patches for 2010.11 by buying
a support contract. The ways things have changed since those older releases:
- Oracle does not give away licenses to run 2010.11 on a production system
without a support contract, as Sun did for OpenSolaris releases.
- Oracle does not offer development builds for testing & helping find issues
or develop the code, as Sun did for OpenSolaris releases.
Some people may have used the combination of those last two points as a way to
get free security fixes, but they were always mixed in with the latest
development features and you had no way to stay on a "stable" build and get
security fixes without paying.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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