[advocacy-discuss] question about future opensolaris releases

[Glynn Foster]

On 10/06/2008, at 6:28 AM, Rich Reynolds wrote:

> Ill speak out of turn here.
>
> 6 month releases are part of the former SXDE(Solaris Express  
> Developers
> Edition) train. A Sun supported developers release program began wtih
> the 2008.5 distribution that was an outgrowth of the Indiana project.
>
> and the 2 week release schedule for SXCE(Solaris Express Community
> Edition) has been going for some time and I have not heard of plans to
> change it.

SXCE will slowly morph into OpenSolaris OS updates ie. the thing you  
saw this weekend. The 2 week build schedule will continue, with  
updates being pushed to pkg.opensolaris.org if you are on the  
'unstable' branch. Every 6 months, the unstable branch will morph into  
a stable product to be released to the world eg. OpenSolaris 2008.11.

The names SXDE and SXCE will go away over time. The only reason for  
SXCE being around as a separate train is because you can't yet  
bootstrap an ON build on OpenSolaris OS (though I have heard people  
confirming this is now possible with a few workarounds).


Glynn