[OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

[hairryharry]

Thanks Alasdair,

Good - I had hoped thats what you were suggesting.

Mike


Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
> On 15 Jan 2011, at 10:37, Hairry Harry wrote:
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>> The advice please is if the overall plan is to move completely to a
>> server based distro and use as a desktop OS is limited should I just
>> stop wasting my time and step off now and return to linux.
>>     
>
> Mike,
>
> I think you've misunderstood the proposal a bit. The plan isn't at all to move completely to a server based distro - I sincerely hope I didn't give that impression.
>
> The Dev branch will continue to have a full desktop and will continue to be updated from the Oracle software repositories (which are still open).
>
> The proposal for the Stable branch was for it to be a clone of the dev branch in every way, just that we'll also provide critical security updates for a small set of packages, for a fixed time period.
>
> While the stable branch is sat there only getting security updates, the /dev branch will continue to be updated, receiving the latest and greatest desktop software.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alasdair
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