Understanding Solaris Releases
I noticed that many people starting to work with Solaris are hard enough to understand existing releases and variations of this OS, which often leads to difficulties in mastering its capabilities. Therefore, here is a brief description of each of the options.
"Solaris 10 is the most stable release of Solaris currently intended for industrial use in productive environments. Freely available for download at Sun Microsystems. For it is carried out comprehensive support, patches are issued correcting errors and security problems. Since the release of the first version of Solaris 10, there have been several updates that contain new functionality and bug fixes, a list of which and a brief description of the changes can be found here. These updates are released on average every six months and are named by numbers as well as by the date of their release (for example, at the moment the latest update is 4 - it is 08/07).
»Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) - also called Nevada, is a distribution based on the latest developments, which in the future will turn into Solaris 11. New versions are released quite often and are named by the build number (the latter is currently 81). The main goal of Solaris Nevada is the development and testing of new functionality. Freely available for download on opensolaris.org
»Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE) is a binary distribution based on SXCE that has passed the testing phase and is supported. Designed primarily for developers. Releases occur much less frequently than SXCE and are named after the release date - the last one at the moment is 1/08. Freely available for download at Sun Microsystems.
"Open Solaris is not a complete distribution, but is an open source kernel and a set of basic utilities. It does not contain many of the components of the system required for operation and the installer, so it can only be installed on top of SXCE / SXDE (which are themselves built on the basis of OpenSolaris). Binary assemblies appear quite often. Available for free download on opensolaris.org and Sun Microsystems. It is worth noting that the process of porting new features from Open Solaris to Solaris 10 is constantly underway.
»Solaris Indiana - distribution based on OpenSolaris and aimed at use as a desktop. At the moment, the latest version - Developer Preview 2, made in the form of a LiveCD. Available for free download on opensolaris.org. Perhaps in the future, Indiana will replace the Developer Edition.
»Other distributions built outside of Sun based on OpenSolaris. It is worth noting the Nexenta and Schillix as the most successful.
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http://blogs.sun.com/SFilipp/entry/solaris_byabing_different
"Solaris 10 is the most stable release of Solaris currently intended for industrial use in productive environments. Freely available for download at Sun Microsystems. For it is carried out comprehensive support, patches are issued correcting errors and security problems. Since the release of the first version of Solaris 10, there have been several updates that contain new functionality and bug fixes, a list of which and a brief description of the changes can be found here. These updates are released on average every six months and are named by numbers as well as by the date of their release (for example, at the moment the latest update is 4 - it is 08/07).
»Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) - also called Nevada, is a distribution based on the latest developments, which in the future will turn into Solaris 11. New versions are released quite often and are named by the build number (the latter is currently 81). The main goal of Solaris Nevada is the development and testing of new functionality. Freely available for download on opensolaris.org
»Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE) is a binary distribution based on SXCE that has passed the testing phase and is supported. Designed primarily for developers. Releases occur much less frequently than SXCE and are named after the release date - the last one at the moment is 1/08. Freely available for download at Sun Microsystems.
"Open Solaris is not a complete distribution, but is an open source kernel and a set of basic utilities. It does not contain many of the components of the system required for operation and the installer, so it can only be installed on top of SXCE / SXDE (which are themselves built on the basis of OpenSolaris). Binary assemblies appear quite often. Available for free download on opensolaris.org and Sun Microsystems. It is worth noting that the process of porting new features from Open Solaris to Solaris 10 is constantly underway.
»Solaris Indiana - distribution based on OpenSolaris and aimed at use as a desktop. At the moment, the latest version - Developer Preview 2, made in the form of a LiveCD. Available for free download on opensolaris.org. Perhaps in the future, Indiana will replace the Developer Edition.
»Other distributions built outside of Sun based on OpenSolaris. It is worth noting the Nexenta and Schillix as the most successful.
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http://blogs.sun.com/SFilipp/entry/solaris_byabing_different
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/20359/
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