On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Stuart F. Biggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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:
Nevada is not OpenSolaris. Nevada is Sun's in-progress candidate for the next release of Solaris, based in part on source from OpenSolaris but also including other components, some open-source and some not. CDE, including dtlogin, is one of the closed-source items currently included in Nevada. So SRSS is usually happy on Nevada, although Nevada can not be a supported platform because it's still very much a moving target. Other distros derived from the OpenSolaris source can set their own rules about what components they include. When Meik talks about OpenSolaris not including dtlogin I suspect he's talking about the Indiana project, which appears to have stolen the OpenSolaris name and applied it to a distribution rather than to the source base. Indiana delivers only freely-redistributable software and therefore does not include CDE (and therefore not dtlogin). I think your'e allowed to take CDE packages from Nevada and load them onto an Indiana install. That would be the easiest way to get SRSS running on Indiana. I haven't heard of many people doing that. Obviously it'd be unsupported but we'd be interested to hear about problems in case they're issues that might affect SRSS on supported platforms. We might even fix problems that don't apply to supported platforms, just as we sometimes do to make life easier on unsupported Linuxes. OttoM. __ ottomeister Disclaimer: These are my opinions. I do not speak for my employer. _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
