[advocacy-discuss] question about future opensolaris releases

[Glynn Foster]

On 10/06/2008, at 12:04 PM, Glynn Foster wrote:
> 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).

I should also say that a lot of the testing infrastructure internal to  
Sun relies on technology not currently available with OpenSolaris OS  
ie. jumpstart. That's also likely to be a pre-condition of SXCE  
hanging around for a while longer.


Glynn