18 Nov
2021
18 Nov
'21
11:50 p.m.
On Nov 18, 2021, at 5:39 PM, Brian Hechinger <wonko
at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
?Once Oracle took over Solaris was a dead, useless product for a very small subset of
people. Anyone who wasn't in the habit of paying Oracle obscene amounts of money (I
still don't understand why people do that) dropped that shit like it was hot.
OpenIndiana rocks ? running as my file server among other things for many years now. There
was a DECnet thing for some ancient version of SunOS too, haven?t been able to find it.
/s.
-brian
> On 18/11/21 18:38, Dave McGuire wrote:
>> On 11/18/21 1:05 PM, August Treubig wrote:
>> Yes, ?more correctly?, Solaris 2.x is System V. Then after about 2.6, they
threw away the 2. Part. Then once the evil Oracle grabbed on, it all went into the
dumpster.
>
> Well, also, not quite. It's still a product, if only barely.
>
> But commercial suitware is irrelevant. The real meat lives on in
Illumos/SmartOS/etc.
>
> -Dave
>