Man, it's too bad that you're going through all these problems with your image updates. But look on the bright side, the more debugging we do now, the more stable Solaris 11 is going to be when it finally gets released a couple of years from now.
I think the reason Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 have reputations for being such "rock solid" and "bullet proof" operating systems is probably because back in the day, Sun Microsystems did all of this heavy duty debugging and troubleshooting in secret behind closed doors and only high ranking officials in the government, military, and financial institutions (and the telephone companies like AT&T) were allowed to do what we are doing now, which is to get a developer preview of the code base that is going to eventually become the next version of Solaris. Sun Microsystems has finally opened up the debugging process and allowed everyone who is interested to get involved in sanding down the rough edges. Look at how stable Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 are and they were debugged in secret, so I can only imagine how even more solid Solaris 11 is going to be when they have all of us finding the bugs in the code along with the Sun Microsystems engineers and the usual customers in the phone companies and financial institutions and military IT people who usually worked on debugging the code in the past. Also keep this in mind: the versions of Solaris from Solaris 10 onwards have a lot of pretty new features, some of which I don't think have ever existed in any operating system before they were incorporated into Solaris, so the engineers at Sun are trying to do some new stuff that has never been done before, so I think they deserver a little slack. Also, look at how few Sun engineers and OpenSolaris developers there are compared to the massive horde of millions of Linux developers. If you look at how much has been accomplished by such a relatively small number of people in the UNIX world, I think it's pretty impressive. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
