Oracle Moves to Mollify Frustrated Sun Customers
As I said before. OpenSolaris 134 was to become OpenSolaris 10.03. This can be viewed at:
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+on/schedule
As you can plainly see builds 133 and 134 are for blockers. My guess is that there are still blockers. One has to do with data corruption on ZFS.
http://www.pubbs.net/201006/opensolaris/10935-re-osol-discuss-where-is-opensolaris-2010-release.html
I don’t anyone who would knowingly run an Operating System which is known to cause data corruption. Restoring files is both boring and time consuming.
Genunix.org has a version of build 142 that you can finagle to install but it gets a little dicey and is not a straight-forward install or upgrade.
The OpenSolaris constitution does state that Oracle HAS to have a person to act as a liaison between the board and Oracle but Oracle has been having staffing problems on the Sun side. Even though the board knows who the liaison is that person still hasn’t made it to a meeting.
Other people say that the project is being silently killed off while others like me urge patience.
The Oracle Open Source programs page still lists OpenSolaris as a major project.
http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/open-source/index.htm
First the OGB voted to dissolve in the future and now customers are threatening to walk.
And Oracle sticks by its own policy NOT to announce anything until it’s actually time to ship.
What has been updated by Oracle?
MySQL
NetBeans
OpenOffice
Java is now at build 21
Sun Ray
Sun Studio is in the works and they are taking bug fixes prior to the next release.
Virtual Box
Unlike the above Solaris/OpenSolaris are complete Operating Systems.
That’s the state of affairs as I understand it.
alan
