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jmoore

@scottalanmiller I was going to say that I thought it was dead long ago.

I think you are both right. Didn't I read that Oracle quit development on Solaris totally?

scottalanmiller

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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller I was going to say that I thought it was dead long ago.

I think you are both right. Didn't I read that Oracle quit development on Solaris totally?

Not "totally", but "for all intents and purposes."

scottalanmiller

Sparc team was also liquidated and their primary Sparc partner was bought by Lenovo. So... Sparc is dead, too.

jmoore

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@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller I was going to say that I thought it was dead long ago.

I think you are both right. Didn't I read that Oracle quit development on Solaris totally?

Not "totally", but "for all intents and purposes."

Well darn. Is OpenIndiana worth playing around with then?

scottalanmiller

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

And I say that as someone that really loves Solaris.

Yeah I used Solaris a long time ago that was in a friend's business and liked it. Wanted to get around to trying it again but just never did.

It's in the category with BeOS, TrueUNIX and such now. A neat chapter of history, but sadly gone.

I started my UNIX journey on Solaris 2.4, in 1994 on 32 bit Sparc hardware.

scottalanmiller

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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller I was going to say that I thought it was dead long ago.

I think you are both right. Didn't I read that Oracle quit development on Solaris totally?

Not "totally", but "for all intents and purposes."

Well darn. Is OpenIndiana worth playing around with then?

Not IMHO. It's not a bad project, but it offers nothing of real value. If you want to use UNIX, you have Linux, BSD, and AIX today. No other UNIX has any utility.

jmoore

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

And I say that as someone that really loves Solaris.

Yeah I used Solaris a long time ago that was in a friend's business and liked it. Wanted to get around to trying it again but just never did.

It's in the category with BeOS, TrueUNIX and such now. A neat chapter of history, but sadly gone.

I started my UNIX journey on Solaris 2.4, in 1994 on 32 bit Sparc hardware.

Very cool!

jmoore

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@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller I was going to say that I thought it was dead long ago.

I think you are both right. Didn't I read that Oracle quit development on Solaris totally?

Not "totally", but "for all intents and purposes."

Well darn. Is OpenIndiana worth playing around with then?

Not IMHO. It's not a bad project, but it offers nothing of real value. If you want to use UNIX, you have Linux, BSD, and AIX today. No other UNIX has any utility.

BSD is more mature and stable of a project isn't it?

scottalanmiller

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

And I say that as someone that really loves Solaris.

Yeah I used Solaris a long time ago that was in a friend's business and liked it. Wanted to get around to trying it again but just never did.

It's in the category with BeOS, TrueUNIX and such now. A neat chapter of history, but sadly gone.

I started my UNIX journey on Solaris 2.4, in 1994 on 32 bit Sparc hardware.

Very cool!

Just sad to see Solaris and Sparc dying off. The end of an era.

scottalanmiller

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@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller I was going to say that I thought it was dead long ago.

I think you are both right. Didn't I read that Oracle quit development on Solaris totally?

Not "totally", but "for all intents and purposes."

Well darn. Is OpenIndiana worth playing around with then?

Not IMHO. It's not a bad project, but it offers nothing of real value. If you want to use UNIX, you have Linux, BSD, and AIX today. No other UNIX has any utility.

BSD is more mature and stable of a project isn't it?

BSD is heavily used and extremely mature. OpenIndiana is well done, but borders on being a hobby project.

scottalanmiller

And the biggest featuers of Solaris / OpenIndiana like dtrace and OpenZFS were long ago ported to FreeBSD.

jmoore

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

And the biggest featuers of Solaris / OpenIndiana like dtrace and OpenZFS were long ago ported to FreeBSD.

Ok I guess that decides it for me. I just missed my chance. i might look at the real Solaris eventually just because I want to, sad that it won't have any purpose to use it for when I do.

scottalanmiller

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

And the biggest featuers of Solaris / OpenIndiana like dtrace and OpenZFS were long ago ported to FreeBSD.

Ok I guess that decides it for me. I just missed my chance. i might look at the real Solaris eventually just because I want to, sad that it won't have any purpose to use it for when I do.

Sad, but at least FreeBSD took its place in the market.