On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:58 PM, badmagic <[email protected]> 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.
Hm. Oracle have publicly committed to investing more in Solaris than Sun did. With constant loss-making and death by a thousand rifs, how secure was the long term future of Solaris and Sun, really? > 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. The Solaris express releases matched the development builds of OpenSolaris, which appear at about the same frequency, aside the recent pause so as not to overrun the next full release. 2009.06 is part of a release chain on a different cadence. (And yes, we need to learn from the predictability of Ubuntu.) > 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. And all these changes were introduced by Sun a long time ago, well before any Oracle involvement. The acquisition has nothing to do with it. How much Oracle follow Sun's plans of chasing users who don't generate revenue remains to be seen... > 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. Ugh. OpenSolaris isn't *that* bad. > 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? Which way? And why blame Oracle for changes Sun instituted years ago? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
