dsr_3 hours ago
I suppose they are looking for people who had not previously stuck their hand in the lawnmower.
imglorp23 minutes ago
Who's the target audience for that announcement?
a. Existing customers already got their hands chopped, their prices raised, or their lawyers poked. They're stuck with an abusive, litigious, opaque vendor and will migrate out when they can. Many are stuck.
b. Prospective customers must have some compatibility need or they'd look elsewhere.
c. Developers won't be fooled so rule them out :)
buildbot3 hours ago
I was looking up the Sparc S8 mentioned in the article and the first discussion that came up is quickly derailed due to worrying about copyright: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/sparclinux/patch/202511...
ForHackernewsan hour ago
RobotToaster4 minutes ago
I think I'd rather use hpux than deal with oracle
whalesalad3 hours ago
I wonder where Solaris is still actively being deployed and used.
chasil2 hours ago
I think that OpenIndiana is where those with general interest in Solaris on x86_64 should go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIndiana
SmartOS, for example, is a more specialized application of the scions of OpenSolaris.
Here is a list of other distros that originated from the Illumos efforts after OpenSolaris was terminated:
-DilOS, with Debian package manager (dpkg + apt) and virtualization support, available for x86-64 and SPARC.
-NexentaStor, distribution optimized for virtualization, storage area networks, network-attached storage, and iSCSI or Fibre Channel applications employing the ZFS file system.
-OmniOS Community Edition, takes a minimalist approach suitable for server use.
-OpenIndiana, a distribution that is a continuation and fork in the spirit of the OpenSolaris operating system.
-SmartOS, a distribution for cloud computing with Kernel-based Virtual Machine integration.
-Helios, a distribution powering the Oxide Computer Rack.
-Tribblix, retro style distribution with modern components, available for x86-64 and SPARC.
-v9os, a server-only, IPS-based minimal SPARC distribution.
-XStreamOS, a distribution for infrastructure, cloud, and web development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumos#Distributions
Edit: From this blog entry, this is suspicious: "the committed support for Oracle Solaris until at least 2037" - does Solaris have a 2038 problem?
bigbuppo2 hours ago
No 2037 problem. That's just 25 years after they killed the product.
proxysna2 hours ago
it's mostly OmniOS/SmartOS and other Illumos (descendant of OpenSolaris) distributions. All the Solaris 11 deployments i was aware of in mid-late 2010s are now either migrated to some sort of container setup of running on OmniOS.
nine_k3 hours ago
Solaris proper, not Illumos?
whalesalad2 hours ago
Either way, SPARC and the entire family seem to be entirely dead in the grand scheme of things. I don't know why anyone would develop for this platform.
claudex2 hours ago
Solaris and Illumos are available on x86
coredog642 hours ago
My employer uses ZFS under AndrewFS (aka AFS) and I would bet dollars to donuts that the OS is Solaris.
jordemort2 hours ago
"We're about to take a bath on these datacenters, do we have any other viable lines of business left?"
heybales2 hours ago
The Oracle business model is to rope you into a contract, set you up for failure, ignore you until you violate a license agreement, then sue you and rope you into another contract to avoid the lawsuit. If you're an Oracle customer, prepare to get sued... for something... anything really.
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shrubble2 hours ago
Illumos/OpenSolaris etc are great and install about as easily as FreeBSD, on desktop and server systems with Ethernet. Other stuff like WiFi etc is not as well supported.
It’s still my favorite OS, if it fits what I need it for.
maztaiman hour ago
What are your needs that it would fit? Oracle have you by the database?
shrubblean hour ago
It’s great for ZFS and for Zones, including Linux zones.
hsjdjdjrj39 minutes ago
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