Jaroslaw Rafa via Postfix-users:
> Dnia 20.02.2026 o godz. 16:14:22 Gary R. Schmidt via Postfix-users pisze:
> > >Solaris is easy, it just works under
> > proxmox/VMware/VirtualBox/qemu/whatever.
> >
> > The only real problem is that the 11.4 free-to-use installation
> > media and VM image are quite of date, and the CBE isn't that recent
> > either.
> >
> > And, of course, you have to create an account with 2MFA to get at
> > things. Sigh.
> >
> > If you do decide to add Solaris to your mix, use the Text installer,
> > not the Automated Image installer.
> >
> > My postfix installation started life back on Solaris 10, and as I
> > have access to updates I've just kept it alive.
>
> It's interesting to hear that Solaris is somehow still alive. I thought they
> killed it long ago, already when Oracle acquired Sun... My work as a
> sysadmin started on Solaris many years back (it was Solaris 2.5.1 then).
> Later I did some programming work on Solaris 9 and 10, but after the Sun
> acquisition my company switched fully from Solaris to Linux and I didn't
> hear about Solaris since then...
I'm not yet ready to drop Solaris support. Postfix development works
under the assumption that if Postfix works on FreeBSD, Solaris and
Linux, which implement similar standards on quite different code
bases, then it is likely to work on many UNIX-like systems. It has
to be reliable and consistent, not necessarily at the bleeding edge.
Wietse
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