Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 25th Sep 2007 12:31 UTC, submitted by Patrik Buckau
Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris Solaris Express Developer Edition is a free, quarterly release of Sun's next generation Solaris Operating System built from the source code repository at OpenSolaris.org. The release includes the latest tools, technologies, and platforms to create applications for the Solaris OS, Java Application Platforms, and Web 2.0. "Major highlights: new Solaris installer - the first major rewrite of the Solaris installer since Solaris 8 makes installation much easier; D-Light, the GUI tool to bring the power of DTrace to a broad developer audience; service offerings have been augmented with the addition of installation and configuration support." Update: Review here.
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Testing software and solaris
by ashigabou on Tue 25th Sep 2007 14:12 UTC
ashigabou
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2005-11-11

Is this the "distribution" to use if one when to test the build process on solaris ? I am one of the maintainer of some mid size open source project with complicated build process, and I would like to improve the situation on solaris (where it works mainly with gcc, not so well with sun compilers).

binarycrusader Member since:
2005-07-06

Depends on your target audience.

If you want to target Solaris 10 (production release), use Solaris 10 Update 4.

If you're a developer just wanting experience with Solaris, and for testing, use this.

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