On 01/11/12 12:03 PM, Bryan N Iotti wrote:
Should I move to OpenSolaris (can't find the SPARC .iso anywhere!) and
be done with the whole "patch" thing?
Depending on your hardware, you can use Solaris 10 u8 (10/09) that does
not impose usage restrictions for commercial use. (Later Solaris 10
releases from Oracle allows using it for testing/development only
without license/support contract that gives patches, too).
On Opensolaris side, latest you can use on Sparc is Opensolaris snv_134,
available now on
http://dlc-origin.openindiana.org/isos/opensolaris/ , after genunix.org
removal.
After that one can use Illumos building instructions to update and build
illumos on Sparc, on Illumos wiki and openindiana wiki.
There is no Openindiana (as Illumos based distrinution) for Sparc yet,
but there are development sparc machines under openindiana/illumos
umbrella to compile on.
Best is to also get on Freenode IRC channel for Illumos , to get
informed on sparc progress for Illumos and Openindiana and join forces
with making it for yourself and others.
(There is upgrade jump needed after snv_134 , to be able to build
Illumos and i can not find Wiki article about it anymore for SPARC , try
it on Illumos mailing lists).
There were upgrade path before from opensolaris snv_134 , over Oracle's
b134 and Solaris11Express to Solaris11, but it seems that Oracle removed
both b134 and S11Express IPS publishers (repositories) disabling upgrade
path for S11 for opensolaris users.
If someone have both b134 and S11Express repository images, it might be
possible starting IPS publisher locally and upgrading or making it
available for internet upgrade, etc.
Talk about upgrade is, since Oracle changed ZFS format that is not
compatible with anything in rest of the world, beside S11, but it can
use older dataset if upgraded to, and Oracle killed upgrade.
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