[indiana-discuss] How to update Opensolaris 2008.05 to build 90

[Calum Benson]

On 27 May 2008, at 13:55, Marcelo Leal wrote:

> Two repositories? Sorry but that is just confuse. I did not find
> anything about it on the FAQ and i think is a "must" be in the first
> page.

I guess it's not in the FAQ because right now only one, free  
repository is available.  I'm sure you will see announcements when  
additional repositories and support options come online.

> The GNU/Linux users have a LTS distro from Ubuntu.com (yes, Long
> Time Support for FREE, 3 years for the desk and 5 for the servers).

As I understand it, this is how long Ubuntu promises to provide  
critical bugfix and security patches for a particular release for  
free.  AFAIK, Sun plans to do exactly the same for each release of  
OpenSolaris, for a certain amount of time.

But, you can also buy support for Ubuntu:
<http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid>

This is the same sort of paid support option that Sun are talking  
about for OpenSolaris.  Customers who pay for support will have access  
to an additional repository.  I don't know the details of how that  
will differ from the free repository, but I guess it may provide  
things like longer support for particular releases, or bugfixes for  
particular customers.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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