15 Mar
2024
15 Mar
'24
2:23 a.m.
Another reason why it’s fun use the older OS’s. For old Sun HW, I don’t believe SunView
can be beat.
It was always very performant for me, and met the basic goals of a window manager that I
needed.
(I’m not one that needs a huge amount of customization..)
Earl
On Mar 13, 2024, at 8:40 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith(a)oracle.com> wrote:
On 3/13/24 14:27, Will Senn wrote:
I recently saw that Solaris 11.4 SRU66 was
released and had a yearning to see how things in Solaris land were doing (can't stand
Gnome so OpenIndiana's a bust)...
You might not find Solaris much more to your liking then, since Solaris 11.0
and later only include the GNOME desktop. (Solaris 2.6 through 10 also had
CDE, and Solaris 1.0 through 8 also had OpenWindows.) In Solaris 11.4, it's
GNOME 3 - up to GNOME 41 in SRU 66.
OpenIndiana went with MATE instead of GNOME 3, and I believe has some other
desktop choices as well. The Tribblix distro of illumos offers a choice of
Xfce, Mate, OpenCDE, or Enlightenment on top of the same core OS derived from
OpenSolaris.
but with Oracle's Solaris, it's a mess
at least for hobbyists (only get release patches, so I'm guessing the most up to date
'release' was 11.4 in 2018).
There's also the "CBE" release from 2022 to allow people building open
source
to build & test on a somewhat newer base:
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-the-first-oracle-solaris-1…
It's roughly equivalent to a beta build of Solaris 11.4 SRU 42. (Solaris 11.4
issues "Support Repository Updates" or SRUs around once a month, so the SRU
number is basically the count of the number of months after August 2018 that
a given SRU was released.)
But yeah, if you want to stay up to date, you need a support contract.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith(a)oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris