Stev,
did you read the archive of this mailing list? Take the last 2 months, and
you'll get all the answers you need. In short: OSOL is alive and kicking!
Matthias
You (badmagic) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It seems (I'm afraid that) ever since Oracle took over Sun Microsystems,
> Solaris stands to die a protracted and painful death by attrition.
>
> I used to download the snv-xxx releases and liked them very much. They were
> released quite regularly but OpenSolaris seems to have been stuck on
> 2009.06 for a long time. I know it can be upgraded but it's not something
> I've done yet because the whole NWAM stuff didn't work for my wireless NIC.
> I had to turn it off and manually configure networking. That's just an
> excuse but I never got used to OpenSolaris.
>
> I must admit, ever since Orafice took over, I've lost all enthusiasm for
> Solaris of any kind. I loved Solaris. It was (is) true UNIX. None of this
> BSD UNIX-"like" stuff and Linux is not even related.
>
> This had to happen, and I've got an E450, an E250, a Sun Blade 1500 and an
> Ultra 5 set up in my garage here on my home (hobby) network and now I've
> lost all inclination.
>
> I'm using Solaris on all of the Sun machines and some x86 servers and
> snv121 on my laptop and desktop PC. Now I've got to decide whether to go
> back to FreeBSD, OpenBSD or find a half way decent Linux distro again.
>
> I know it's open source but will OpenSolaris die off soon through lack of
> interest/funding, whatever, or can I get interested in that?
>
> Am I the only one who feels this way about Sun Microsystems & Solaris?
>
> Regards,
> Steve Laurie
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