> Opensolaris sounds much better in this respect. It seems they try hard
> to integrate up-to-date open source software. But I hear suspiciously little
> about Opensolaris+SRSS. Since, e.g., SRSS for Solaris uses dtlogin instead of
gdm
> and dtlogin is not part of Opensolaris, I expect there are some rough edges.
> I also do not know if there is already a continuous update procedure in
opensolaris
> or if I have to reinstall everything from scratch every few months.
> So I never tried it.
> Can anyone share his Opensolaris+SRSS experience on this list? This would be
great!
>
I run SRSS on SPARC Solaris 10 but do run OpenSolaris (snv_84 now)
on an x86 notebook. I use CDE and I'm not sure why you think
dtlogin is gone from Nevada:
[t43p:/home/stu]# ps -ef | grep dt | sort
stu 1105 686 0 09:20:33 ? 0:01 /usr/X11/bin/Xorg :0 -depth
24 -nolisten tcp -nobanner -auth /var/dt/A:0-1WaWvb
stu 1147 1129 0 09:20:48 ? 0:00 /bin/ksh /usr/dt/bin/Xsession
stu 1217 1147 0 09:20:49 pts/2 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/sdt_shell -c
unsetenv _ PWD; unsetenv DT; setenv D
stu 1219 1 0 09:20:49 ? 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dsdm
stu 1240 1 0 09:20:49 pts/2 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/ttsession
stu 1241 1218 0 09:20:49 pts/2 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtsession
stu 1247 1241 0 09:20:49 ? 0:00 dtwm
stu 1248 1241 0 09:20:49 ?? 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtterm -session
dtRjaqlH
stu 1249 1241 0 09:20:49 ?? 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtterm -session
dtSjaylH
stu 1250 1241 0 09:20:49 ?? 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtterm -session
dtTjaGlH -C -ls
stu 1251 1241 0 09:20:49 ?? 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtterm -session
dtVja4oH
stu 1284 1241 0 09:20:50 ? 0:00 sdtperfmeter -f -H -t cpu -t
disk -s 1 -name fpperfmeter
stu 1287 1 0 09:20:50 ? 0:00 /bin/ksh
/usr/dt/bin/sdtvolcheck -d -z 5 cdrom,zip,jaz,dvdrom,rmdisk
root 502 7 0 09:19:05 console 0:00 /usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -d
/dev/console -l console -m ldterm,ttcompat -h -p t43p
root 686 1 0 09:19:15 ? 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -daemon
-udpPort 0
root 1129 686 0 09:20:34 ? 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -daemon
-udpPort 0
[t43p:/home/stu]#
The upgrade path from one release to a newer one with nevada is to
do an upgrade install (or intial install). There are no patches ...
Stuart
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