The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
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Re: The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
#2I always thought Solaris was a beautiful and memorable name for an operating system.
Any connection with the Stanislaw Lem novel (or Tarkovsky movie) was always a bit unclear to me... But I guess a book about futile interactions with a planet-sized alien brain that doesn't care about you other than mysteriously experimenting with your memories is a reasonable metaphor for the Unix user experience.
Re: The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
#3RIP Solaris, it introduced UNIX to me and I will always remember it fondly.
Re: The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
#4I always thought Solaris was a beautiful and memorable name for an operating system. Any connection with the Stanislaw Lem novel (or Tarkovsky movie) was always a bit unclear to me... But I guess a book about futile interactions with a planet-sized alien brain that doesn't care about you other than mysteriously experimenting with your memories is a reasonable metaphor for the Unix user experience.
Soderberghs version is much more reflective of what happened with the emergence of OpenSolaris and Illumos (not to give away any spoilers but apparently forking is a real thing and it lives on). Tarkovskys movie was such a philosophical drivel that I feel asleep. How is the book - is it worth reading? As I understood it neither of films follow the novel very closely.
Re: The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
#5> ..employees who had given their careers to the company were told of their termination via a pre-recorded call — “robo-RIF’d”
This sounds awful, and very long from what would be the legal requirements demanded in the country I live in.
What would such a robot call say?
Re: The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
#6> ..employees who had given their careers to the company were told of their termination via a pre-recorded call — “robo-RIF’d” This sounds awful, and very long from what would be the legal requirements demanded in the country I live in. What would such a robot call say?
I'd imagine something like "shutdown -h now" or the solaris equivalent
Re: The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
#7I always thought Solaris was a beautiful and memorable name for an operating system. Any connection with the Stanislaw Lem novel (or Tarkovsky movie) was always a bit unclear to me... But I guess a book about futile interactions with a planet-sized alien brain that doesn't care about you other than mysteriously experimenting with your memories is a reasonable metaphor for the Unix user experience.
Soderberghs version is much more reflective of what happened with the emergence of OpenSolaris and Illumos (not to give away any spoilers but apparently forking is a real thing and it lives on). Tarkovskys movie was such a philosophical drivel that I feel asleep. How is the book - is it worth reading? As I understood it neither of films follow the novel very closely.
The book is good.
Re: The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
#8As someone who's never used Solaris or looked into its merits I'm curious: can someone comment on why all the nostalgia for Solaris?
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#9> ..employees who had given their careers to the company were told of their termination via a pre-recorded call — “robo-RIF’d” This sounds awful, and very long from what would be the legal requirements demanded in the country I live in. What would such a robot call say?
Exactly what I would expect from Oracle
Re: The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
#10My only experience with Solaris was on the campus computer lab. It was also one of the first UNIX experiences I had had.
I think what stood out most was the strongly 90s GUI and focus-follows-cursor, which seemed very strange at first. It seemed like an interesting OS with its own quirks