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The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris

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Re: The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris

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Post by dozzie »

z1mm32m4n wrote: post #8

As someone who's never used Solaris or looked into its merits I'm curious: can someone comment on why all the nostalgia for Solaris?

> As someone who's never used Solaris [...], can someone comment on why [...]

I can't, because I'm not somebody who's never used Solaris.

Re: The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris

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Post by erentz »

z1mm32m4n wrote: post #8

As someone who's never used Solaris or looked into its merits I'm curious: can someone comment on why all the nostalgia for Solaris?

It was solid, well laid out, consistent, and it advanced good technology seemingly far ahead of its time. ZFS, dtrace, zones (i.e. containers), FireEngine networking, etc.

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Post by gruturo »

m_samuel_l wrote: post #6
runarb wrote: post #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?

I'd imagine something like "shutdown -h now" or the solaris equivalent

Solaris would understand that, but Oracle's move was nowhere that gentle.

"uadmin 1 6" was more like it (Immediate poweroff, do not even sync disks)

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Post by tyingq »

brian-armstrong wrote: post #10

My 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

Probably olwm or olvwm. Either supported a -c switch for click to focus.

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Post by gedy »

z1mm32m4n wrote: post #8

As someone who's never used Solaris or looked into its merits I'm curious: can someone comment on why all the nostalgia for Solaris?

It was a solid Unix, it added some diversity to our OS choices, and for a time in the 90s Sun had some really stylish hardware that ran Solaris.

Re: The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris

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Post by ams6110 »

z1mm32m4n wrote: post #8

As someone who's never used Solaris or looked into its merits I'm curious: can someone comment on why all the nostalgia for Solaris?

There was a time, so I'm told by Oracle DBAs, that Oracle was developed on Solaris first, then ported to other platforms. So, Solaris had the best support, and least problems. Bugs were fixed there first. To quote, "If you're going to run Oracle, you might as well run it on Solaris"

I guess that is not the case any more.

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