Thanks Jonathan, About the worst that could happen is that I compile a fairly generic program and it might refuse to run on our other Solaris10 workstations.
My work places are usually so far behind in releases that any program we make is executable by "all". Do any of you have particular hints about program design for Solaris11 that keeps it runnable under Solaris10? George Wyche -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Craig Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:11 AM To: Questions and discussions Subject: Re: [csw-users] How to get libmlib.so.2 (SUNW_2.3)? On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Wyche, George PW <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since I am going to the trouble with 2.2+ Gigs of DVD iso download for 10u10, > does anyone have a reason NOT to go for Solaris11? > Personally I love Solaris 11, but be warned it is a very different beast from Solaris 10. If you dont have any experience with OpenSolaris, then your in for a shock. It uses an IPS packaging infrastructure which completely changes the installation and patching processes. The network layer implements crossbow and is very different from past generations. The system becomes more dependent upon SMF and many of the /etc config files that you are used to managing for configuration are now auto-generated from SMF properties. Solaris 10u10 is like putting on a round of patches while Solaris 11 is nearly like a new OS. Goood changes, but dramatic changes forcing you into a deeper learning curve. _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users
