[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommended way to migrate to a new release?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 2 May 2021, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>
> My personal preference is for "all known bugs fixed" release points. 
> If someone wants to track changes more often then the "pkg update" 
> mechanism provides that.

The "all known bugs fixed" release points are not even remotely 
possible given the rolling build/release model.  The release is just a 
snapshot in time.  Even major Linux distributions and FreeBSD are not 
able to accomplish what you describe.  The internal processes that Sun 
used to internally test and "bake" a release for a couple of years are 
not possible.

> Solaris was created to merge Sys V and BSD. So everyone else created 
> OSF/1, though only DEC shipped it. At this point Sys V and BSD 
> compatibility is moot. Sun was the last vendor standing, but not for 
> much longer. Sys V only lives on in Solaris and Illumos so far as I 
> know.

Linux was a functional clone of SunOS/Solaris for quite a long time. 
It is only relatively recently that it is not, given transitions to 
things like 'udev'/'systemd', and trying to get rid of X11.

> ZFS was at one time a compelling reason to stick with OI, but that's 
> no longer the case. It's actually now better documented in FreeBSD.

Perhaps you are talking about the FreeBSD Handbook rather than the 
software implementation.  I am not encountering any issues with the OI 
manual pages or the software.  The OI Wiki is another story 
altogether.

Bob
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