[geeks] Solaris 10 download questions

[Scott Howard]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:41:46AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> About a week ago, I downloaded solaris 10, 10/04 preview version. This
> was before the announcment that it was now "ready for prime time", or in
> plain English, Solaris 10 was being released.

Solaris 10 is neither "released" nor (quite) ready for prime time. It was
"launched" last week, but will be released at the and of Jan.

> Now that it has been released all I see on the web site is the 10/04
> preview version. I expected to see an 11/04 release version. Am I missing
> something? Is the 10/04 preview actually the 11/04 release?

10/04 is the current release of Solaris Express. There may be another
Solaris Express release (11/04) towards the end of this month, but the
SX release calendar is, at best, fluid.

> I only care as I am running older systems and want to upgrade them. They
> are both very slow so an upgrade takes most of a day to run on each
> (one is an Ultra 5, the other is a PPro X86). I'd hate to run the upgrade
> and then find out that if I had clicked on the right icon, I would have
> found a later release and have to do it over again.

If these are test/play machines then put SX 10/04 on them, or just stick
with Solaris 9. If they are production machines then don't even think of
putting SX/S10 on them yet - in fact I think doing so is actually in
breach of the Solaris Express license agreement.

  Scott.