On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 04:03 -0800, Erik Trimble wrote: > On 2/2/2011 3:40 AM, Malayo wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm a linux+system implementer user for about 3 years. I'm trying to learn > > using Solaris and I had downloaded opensolaris iso osol-0906-x86.iso. > > > > Is this the latest version of opensolaris? If not which version should i > > use? > > OpenSolaris is dead. Long Live OpenSolaris! > > > This is going to be a bit confusing, but here are things you need to know: > > (1) the distribution known as "OpenSolaris" is no more. The 0906 version > you have is the latest available, and, while there are updates available > to that distribution, they quit being refreshed as of about a year ago. > Not further work on OpenSolaris (the distribution) will happen. > > (2) There are several other distributions available *based* on the > last-available OpenSolaris *source code*. > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/downloads has a list of > those other distributions. > > (3) Oracle has made a new distro, Solaris 11 Express, available in > binary form. It is based on further development of the original > OpenSolaris codebase. Read here for term, conditions, and more > information about S11X: > > > http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/solaris/solaris-11-express-185123.html > > (4) A fork of the OpenSolaris codebase (using the > last-publicly-available development code) is the IllumOS project, which > other distributions are using as their future codebase. See below for > more information about the IllumOS project: > > http://www.illumos.org/ > > > > > Note that I do not speak for Oracle in any capacity, public, private, > official, or unofficial. >
Thanks for that info Erik. I will try to play with OpenSolaris version 0906 for a while and maybe later check out Solaris 11 Express and other OpenSolaris based distros.
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