James Lick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said >>> >>>This is a bit confusing, but there is no ISO distribution of >>>OpenSolaris.
Sure there is. Solaris Express and the Community Release. >>>You are probably thinking of the Solaris Express Community >>>Release which comes as four ISOs. That's not OpenSolaris. No. It's OpenSolaris and a whole lot more. Fedora, RHEL, and SuSE aren't Linux, but it would be hard to claim that they aren't Linux distributions. >>>The only Sun >>>provided distribution of OpenSolaris comes only as source code (and a >>>bunch of binaries that are still closed source). Not so. Solaris Express, and the Community release, are binary distributions based on OpenSolaris. Solaris 10 fails to qualify only as an accident in timing. And Sun provide prebuilt binary archives you can bfu. >>>You need to Solaris >>>Express Community Release to compile OpenSolaris. While they have some >>>things in common, Solaris Express still is not OpenSolaris. The only >>>OpenSolaris based binary distribution currently is Schillix. And Schillix (amazing achievement) doesn't equal OpenSolaris either. Yes, it's a binary distribution based on OpenSolaris, but it contains additional components that aren't contained in OpenSolaris. (And isn't available on Sparc either, unfortunately.) >>>The main >>>FAQ sort of answers this (though it and the download page should >>>probably be a lot more explicit on this point): >>> >>>http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/general_faq/ Actually, the faq ought to clarify that Solaris Express is a binary distribution of the OpenSolaris source and a whole lot more. For most users, far and away the easiest and safest way to run OpenSolaris binaries is to live a week or two behind the source and run Solaris Express Community Release. Building your own kernel and using the likes of bfu isn't really appropriate for most users. There is a sense of satisfaction in doing so (I know, I do it occasionally just to prove that I can), but it isn't really justifiable unless you're doing hardcore development on the innards of the kernel or building your own distribution. -Peter Tribble MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
