> On May 26, 2021, at 4:38 AM, Randy DuCharame <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I was just curious if anyone's been building ATS 10 on any of the Illumos
> distributions? (playing with OpenIndiana, OmniOS here) I've been a long time
> fan of Solaris and used OpenSolaris exclusively for everything until Oracle
> bought Sun and closed up the OpenSolaris project, which I also contributed to
> at the time. I've experienced a renewed interest in the OS but find now, as I
> did then that the open source applications built on and for Linux don't
> necessarily port easily, even with GNU tools. I'm contemplating switching
> one of my VPS systems over to OmniOS so I'll muddle through it. Was hoping
> someone that's done it already could lop off some of the analysis and R&D.
It may build, but we’ve officially dropped support for Solaris, as in, we don’t
make an effort. If someone wants to take on the support for the platform, I
don’t see a reason why we couldn’t continue to support it. But there are
currently no active ATS developers supporting Solaris.
— leif
