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Re: OpenIndiana Illumos Distro

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Post by stonogo »

mise_en_place wrote: post #11

Strange that it doesn’t support SPARC. It’s like Linux only supporting ARM64 and not x86.

There's an effort to support it: https://dlc.openindiana.aurora-opencloud.org/SPARC/

I think it doesn't have much support because the majority of SPARC gear out there runs better with SunOS. Solaris was a big jump up in processing requirements.

Re: OpenIndiana Illumos Distro

#13

Post by tedunangst »

stonogo wrote: post #12
mise_en_place wrote: post #11

Strange that it doesn’t support SPARC. It’s like Linux only supporting ARM64 and not x86.

There's an effort to support it: https://dlc.openindiana.aurora-opencloud.org/SPARC/ I think it doesn't have much support because the majority of SPARC gear out there runs better with SunOS. Solaris was a big jump up in processing requirements.

Ignoring 20 years of sparc hardware produced after the last sunos release.

Re: OpenIndiana Illumos Distro

#15

Post by unixhero »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #10
gtirloni wrote: post #8

I haven't followed OpenSolaris stuff for long time but I suppose they don't depend on proprietary binary blobs from Sun anymore.

Unfortunately, there are still some proprietary blobs: https://illumos.org/docs/about/faq/#is-illumos-free-software... https://illumos.org/docs/developers/build/#getting-the-close...

For who is that unfortunate?

Re: OpenIndiana Illumos Distro

#16

Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

unixhero wrote: post #15
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, there are still some proprietary blobs: https://illumos.org/docs/about/faq/#is-illumos-free-software... https://illumos.org/docs/developers/build/#getting-the-close...

For who is that unfortunate?

Anyone who cares about flexibility or quality? Those blobs can't be audited for bugs, can't get new features from the community, present a pain point for refactors, and I would expect impede porting to new architectures (though the existence of the ARM port makes me less sure of that point).

Re: OpenIndiana Illumos Distro

#18

Post by hdjrbrbn »

alberth wrote: post #6
wannacboatmovie wrote: post #2

Serious question, I thought OpenIndiana was dead? I've tried OmniOS, saw that it had a massive memory leak in the base install, and determined it wasn't for me. Is there any good alternative of Solaris lineage left? (That doesn't involve selling your soul to Oracle.)

Oxide Computer uses it, I think https://oxide.computer/

Oxide made of ex-joyent (smartos) people, some of which were also ex-sun people (Bryan Cantril for example)
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