JDS 3 (linux x86) and Yast sources.
Hi,
I am interested in updating the packages on my JDS system. Can I use Suse's YAST sources to update the packages on my system? Also which version of Suse does JDS 3 (linux x86) correspond to?
Aas an aside, what is the correct place I should look at to figure out the version of the JDS that is installed. I figured out that the version is JDS 3 on the basis of the default media url in Yast source dialog. I could not gather this information from dmesg, uname or any "about" dialogs on the system.
Thanks,
Gautam.
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Gautam,
According to the current published information from Sun, they have decided not to release their own JDS3/Linux distro (which we had on beta). Instead Sun has currently open sourced the JDS3 desktop for OpenSolaris, and will assumingly make available the reference implementation of JDS3 for Linux for third parties in a "JDS partner program":
<a href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/c ommunities/jds/" target="_blank">http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/ jds/</a>
gcclinux.com has already made available a lot of application packages for JDS3/Linux, so interested JDS3 Linux users ought to look up that site and forum ....
So to your other questions:
1) JDS release (here JDS3 Linux beta):
> cat /etc/sun-release
Sun Java Desktop System, Release 3 - build 24d (Beta Refresh)
2) SuSE Linux release (here JDS3 Linux beta):
> cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (i586)
VERSION = 9
(this is likely to correspond to the SuSE 9.1 Professional desktop. The JDS2/Linux was (is) based on SLES8 which corresponded SuSE 8.1)
And additional:
3) Query Linux kernel version running:
> uname -a
> uname -r
> cat /proc/version
> rpm -qf /boot/vmlinuz
4) listing kernel version installed, e.g :
/lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB-athlon (JDS1/2003 Linux)
/lib/modules/2.6.5-7.139-default (JDS3 Linux beta)
Rgds,
Terje J. Hanssen
terje at 2007-7-5 2:50:24 >
