> Hello, > I want ton know what are the huge differences between > Solaris and OpenSolaris. > If somone can help it will be nice. > Thank you.
Solaris 10: commercial product, fully supported; some new features may never get backported due to the scope of the changes, lack of demand, etc All the rest are based on newer code (some of which finds its way back into Solaris 10). The newer distros tend to have more x86 drivers, more open source apps included, zfs boot support (if they've merged new enough code), etc. Solaris Express Community Edition: the development version of Solaris 10+1; build 91 is out, 92 had problems, and 93 should be out soon (usually a new build every two weeks). OpenSolaris 2008.05 aka "Indiana": new packaging system with updating from repositories instead of patching; various other accomodations to those already familiar with Linux. This is Sun's OpenSolaris-based distro (OpenSolaris in some sense being the code base and community, not just any one distro). There are also other distros built on the OpenSolaris base, such as Schillix, Martux, Belenix, Nexenta, Milax. See http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/distribution/links/ for more info on the various distros. Different packaging systems are currently used (SVR4 packages, IPS for OpenSolaris and supposedly soon or already for Belenix, and debian apt for Nexenta, if I recall correctly). In most cases, what will run on Solaris 10 should run on the others, but not the reverse. Those are just my off-the-top-of-my-head characterizations, and should in no way be regarded as authoritative or even correct. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
