[indiana-discuss] questions about Indiana

[Matt Ingenthron]

Hi Victor,

All common questions.

Victor Jieh wrote:
> IHAC who has the following questions:
>
> 1. Is the source code of opensolaris from neveda or vice versa ?
>   

I think there are a few pages which give a better description of this, 
including the summaries on  opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ , but it's 
perhaps best to separate OpenSolaris source code from OpenSolaris Nevada 
as the project which produces SXCE on a regular basis.  Then there is 
the OpenSolaris distro, produced by project Indiana, which has 
components coming out of Nevada and other OpenSolaris projects (notably 
the pkg project and the caiman installer project).

OpenSolaris source code becomes
 -> Solaris Nevada builds (bundles of source code) become
  -> SXCE releases which then feed into
    -> OpenSolaris distro (from project Indiana)

For instance, the OpenSolaris 2008.05 release I'm running on the laptop 
right now is based on Solaris Nevada build 86.  Later software builds 
are available, and later SXCE releases are available.  All are based on 
one common source code base.  They just may be at different points in 
time.  The binaries in the OpenSolaris distro are the very same ones in 
SXCE for a given release, just repackaged.


> 2. Is Indiana a project under opensolaris ?
>   

Yes, it's a project in the OpenSolaris community which then produces the 
OpenSolaris distro: opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/

> 3. Does Indiana support SPARC or x86 only ? If only x86 now then what is 
> the future plan for Sparc ?
>   

Right now, x86 only for the OpenSolaris distro from project Indiana.  
I've heard November 2008 (the next release) as a target for SPARC support.

SPARC users can certainly get their hands on the latest bits through 
SXCE releases.  For instance, build 89 is available now.

> 4. What version of neveda is Indiana from ?
>   

The current OpenSolaris 2008.05 release is based upon Solaris Nevada 
86.  This release will have it's own "sustaining tail" which will 
provide updates.  These may update to later source code in whole or in 
part (as I understand it).

Hope that helps,

- Matt