On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Nikola M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > Since Oracle does not plan to sell Support for OpenSolaris releases > anymore, > there is idea of releasing /support repository that includes security > updated packages and newer important updated backported applications to > 2009.06. > > Does it sound reasonable to you to release /support repository to > everyone who registered as Opensolaris user (same way as /extra) to be > free to use it (and give a boost in usage for currently unpatched > installations od Opensolaris 2009.06) > > Or even further, we could discuss and organize making and distributing > security patched packages for 2010.x release through open source > /security and/or /support publishers for new adopters of the platform? > > Not to mention, with that move - having updates open sourced and free > for all for all OpenSolaris releases, the same way Opensolaris itself is, > Opensolaris could then suddenly become competitive to ongoning *Linux > releases on multiple usage levels and may be seen in wider use > (Attracting more cooperation with local vendors all over the world, > integrators, contributors or even light netbook-like vendors whose users > could then buy Oracle services over Internet, etc.) and that could > prepare the field even for Next Solaris long term release, too. > > If it is intended for Solaris next not to have updates available for all > (but with included High quality support in package for long-live > installations), > Opensolaris updates could be maintained openly and freely starting from > this fresh upcoming 2010.x release onwards, which would have benefit and > final result as of widening Solaris user base at the end. > > It is important to have Opensolaris releases and the same way freely > distributed /security , /support publisher goes very much logically with > it. > > What do you think? > Yes, every other open source OS that I know has update packages available for their stable branch. I'm used to see security and critical updates from FreeBSD being announced on a mailing list and made available as soon as possible to every user, for instance. Same goes for many Linux distributions. I'm not sure how the process for reporting security bugs and getting them fixed works today for OpenSolaris. Can the community provide that service (/updates and /security repositories) or is the information behind closed doors that we wouldn't be able to do that even if we wanted ? -- Giovanni _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
