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Old 05-16-2008, 02:33 PM
Chris Ridd
 
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Default Re: Sun supported versions of Solaris

On 2008-05-14 17:14:10 +0100, Andre van Eyssen
<nntempt@nospam.purplecow.org> said:

> On 2008-05-02, Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote:
>
>> I would recommend that Solaris 10 be your primary supported platform.
>> Nevada is even better, but it's supportability in a corporate environment
>> might be a bit awkward.

>
> Lack of patches might be a problem. I can't see many production sites wanting
> to liveupgrade the entire release every time a bug needs fixin'.


I'm pretty certain the Solaris Express licenses don't permit their use
in a production environment.

How does OpenSolaris (nee Indiana) get upgraded? I saw the "entire"
meta-package got updated earlier this week - was that it, and if it was
how does one roll back if necessary?

Cheers,

Chris

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