Paul van Berlo wrote:
> OpenSolaris 2008.05 & 2008.11 are released versions, i.e. they can be
> considered stable?
2008.11 is still under development and not yet had a stable release.
It's planned for release in November 2008 (the version is a release
date too).
> All the builds before, between and after, are these considered 'unstable',
> i.e. in the sense of how Linux distributions and FreeBSD do things? They
> release a stable version, and start work on an unstable/testing version which
> will be promoted to stable at a certain point in time?
Pretty much.
> If this is the case, based on the information I found on the Internet and in
> response to my forum post, can I assume there's no such thing as 'updates'
> for the 'stable' release of OpenSolaris 2008.05 and 2008.11 in the future? In
> other words, you always need to upgrade to the 'unstable' version to get
> perhaps important security fixes? This doesn't make much sense, since
> upgrading to the 'unstable' build of OpenSolaris might break other things too?
That's the current situation, since the infrastructure to release
bug fix updates to the stable branch is planned, but not yet in place.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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