"Back in August we shared that Sun would be
discontinuing SXCE, or formally known as Solaris Express Community
Edition. Solaris Express Community Edition for the past five years
has served as Sun's delivery mechanism for the latest and greatest
Solaris code that will eventually make it into the next Solaris
stable release, but earlier this month Sun Microsystems put out
their last bi-weekly build of SXCE and as of the end of this week
all downloads will cease. OpenSolaris has superseded Solaris
Express Community Edition, but with this article, we are taking one
last look at Build 130, the final version of Solaris Express
Community Edition.
"The Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) installer has long
been antiquated like the Solaris 10 installer, even as the
OpenSolaris project came around with the Caiman installer and a
LiveCD mode. SXCE's installer is purely text-based and is quite
slow. Installing the entire SXCE operating system had occupied over
10GB on the hard drive. Solaris Express Community Edition was
produced for x86 and SPARC systems."