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Today

Today marks the first release of Solaris Express Developer Edition.

We have several release vehicles and they are often confusing, but here's the ordered list starting with the newest, freshest, and riskiest, stuff, down to the most stable, most tested, and slower moving stuff:

OpenSolaris - Not a release per se, but the source code. It changes minute-by-minute, but if you want the newest most cutting edge stuff, get it and build your own.

Solaris Express Community Edition - We take OpenSolaris and build it for you every two weeks. There's a quick smoke test and then the binaries pop out as the Community Edition. Good for building OpenSolaris, but probably a little too green to run for anything else.

Solaris Express - We look at the best of the last two Community Editions and release the better one as Solaris Express. This comes out once a month, has had more testing, and is a good one to run on your laptop.

Solaris 10 - The most stable, fully supported release. This is the one you want to run your Grandma's heart/lung machine on.

Now what's happened is that we're replacing Solaris Express with Solaris Express Developer Edition. The support program is a little different, with the newer one being more appropriate for developers. And we're only releasing it quarterly instead of monthly. That allows us to get more testing in. It also makes it safer for you to run on your laptop or desktop and develop on. You'll also see Sun focusing more of its energies on integrating developer tools and developer-related features. There's a lot of new stuff in this first release, so if you haven't been keeping up with Solaris Express or OpenSolaris, you'll want to install this baby and give it a test run.

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