OpenSolaris Update, BigAdmin Q&A

Monday Aug 31, 2009

Two things going on that I thought worth mentioning:

 - The OpenSolaris update to build 121 was released a couple of days ago.  We hope recent quality problems are behind us so that updates will be back on the regular cadence.

 - As part of our continuing efforts to educate the community about OpenSolaris installation, the BigAdmin guys asked me to spend a week answering questions as part of their XPert series, starting today.  If you have a burning question you haven't seen answered, fire away.  I must also say that Rick is (or at least was, we've both aged a bit) a better basketball player than he admits

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Posted at 10:47AM Aug 31, 2009 by dminer in OpenSolaris_Installation
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SXCE Coming to a Close

Monday Aug 10, 2009

A brief note to point out that today we posted the announcement of SXCE end-of-life plans to a variety of OpenSolaris and Solaris mailing lists.  As Glynn noted in a followup to the announcement mail, this decision is unrelated to the recent DOA builds, it's been in the works for quite some time.  However, it's worth noting that some of the problems that led to the DOA builds are a result of the primary development line being based on SXCE, as the difficulty of building media with the old tools and therefore failing to test some scenarios until the WOS is built.  As we complete the conversion of the development and release process to be centered on IPS and the Caiman installer technologies (Distribution Constructor, Automated Installer) we expect instances of these problems will decrease.  Now, more than ever, it's time to get on the OpenSolaris train!

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Posted at 05:01PM Aug 10, 2009 by dminer in OpenSolaris_Releases
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