The answers to your questions are: sxce is a legacy product and will probably be phased out by opensolaris or something based on opensolaris
some people want a gui-free basic opensolaris, but such a thing does not exist because the whole point and drive behind opensolaris is to make a gui distro nexentacore is the closest thing to what you're asking for, but take note that it is made by some dedicated non-sun people, and it is not 100% solaris-compatible (for instance the default path is not the same, making some default utilities GNU ones which do not work with all solaris features) This message posted from opensolaris.org
