Oracle Pushes Solaris into Quarterly Updates

[exfileme]

Solaris and other Sun-based products are now on Oracle's quarterly security update schedule.

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[Emperus]

This is good.. I've always loved the idea of updates being thoroughly tested before released.. A quarterly schedule will give them time for stable releases.. Moreover important from the fact that solaris ( also opensolaris ) is largely non existent for desktop users and even in the server and security market they've stiff competition..

 

[buckinbottoms]

last time I worked on anything involving Solaris was 10 years ago in school.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Interesting article. I always thought commercial and IT would be more secure. Now I find out that isn't the case, at least not with Sun.

 

[deltatux]

I rather run FreeBSD on my home server. I don't really like Solaris. Probably because I've been using UNIX-like OSes in so long I'm not used to real UNIX OSes. I don't know.

However, I think software updates should happen immediately instead of every quarter. I don't like the idea of waiting every 3 months for security patches.

 

[Guest]

Yea, but now you have to pay for their mistakes. Oracle doesn't know how to be an OS company.