This is a fairly frequently asked question inside Sun, and now that the biweekly builds are available outside Sun, there are probably more people who are interested. If you want to create a Boot Environment with a specific build (not the latest one) in OpenSolaris, here are the steps to use:
beadm create snv122
beadm mount snv122 /mnt
pkg [...]
I’ve been thinking recently about the fact that the average piece of software code includes instructions to the compiler mixed together with instructions that should be executed at runtime. Type declarations are instructions to the compiler. Most of the general sequential code is instructions that should be executed at runtime. It occurred to me these are [...]