@Oracle, please do the right thing and open-source Solaris. At least that's a proper way to die!
Imagine if Solaris could be used as a kernel for a mobile OS...
Sun used to sell Toshiba laptops with Solaris x86 pre-installed.
“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”
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Re: “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”
#12Sad news all over industry. Red Hat creating huge mess throughout linux with systemd for years. Solaris killed. Thankfully zfs continues living trough FreeBSD. MariaDB is forked at the last moment. Some of my work depends on VirtualBox. Quote from American Gods: “A single product manufactured by a single company for a single global market. Spicy, medium, or chunky! They get a choice, of course! OF COURSE! But they ar…
> MariaDB is forked at the last moment.
What is this about?
Re: “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”
#13Sad news all over industry. Red Hat creating huge mess throughout linux with systemd for years. Solaris killed. Thankfully zfs continues living trough FreeBSD. MariaDB is forked at the last moment. Some of my work depends on VirtualBox. Quote from American Gods: “A single product manufactured by a single company for a single global market. Spicy, medium, or chunky! They get a choice, of course! OF COURSE! But they ar…
Every major Linux distro uses systemd. I know its opponents are vocal but a bunch of us are silently enjoying the simplicity of .service files and systemd timers.
I guess many that are against it, would rather have a pure UNIX V installation, eventually running twm.
Re: “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”
#14Sad news all over industry. Red Hat creating huge mess throughout linux with systemd for years. Solaris killed. Thankfully zfs continues living trough FreeBSD. MariaDB is forked at the last moment. Some of my work depends on VirtualBox. Quote from American Gods: “A single product manufactured by a single company for a single global market. Spicy, medium, or chunky! They get a choice, of course! OF COURSE! But they ar…
> MariaDB is forked at the last moment. What is this about?
About Oracle owning MySQL?
Re: “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every major Linux distro uses systemd. I know its opponents are vocal but a bunch of us are silently enjoying the simplicity of .service files and systemd timers.
I guess many that are against it, would rather have a pure UNIX V installation, eventually running twm.
Made me switch my main desktop from Arch to FreeBSD...
Re: “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”
#16Sad news all over industry. Red Hat creating huge mess throughout linux with systemd for years. Solaris killed. Thankfully zfs continues living trough FreeBSD. MariaDB is forked at the last moment. Some of my work depends on VirtualBox. Quote from American Gods: “A single product manufactured by a single company for a single global market. Spicy, medium, or chunky! They get a choice, of course! OF COURSE! But they ar…
Every major Linux distro uses systemd. I know its opponents are vocal but a bunch of us are silently enjoying the simplicity of .service files and systemd timers.
Simplicity of systemd timers? Right.
Re: “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”
#17@Oracle, please do the right thing and open-source Solaris. At least that's a proper way to die!
Imagine if Solaris could be used as a kernel for a mobile OS...
> Imagine if Solaris could be used as a kernel for a mobile OS...
I'm imagining, and as things stand, my imagination is hinting at crappy battery life due to lack of tuning.
But if you want to try, Solaris was forked long ago -- Illumos is out there.
Re: “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”
#18@Oracle, please do the right thing and open-source Solaris. At least that's a proper way to die!
It is very unlikely that Oracle will do the right thing. Oracle, as a company, is known to be ethically challenged. A company like Oracle that is known for its apathy towards its own developers cannot be expected to make careful consideration towards the software it is killing. For those, who have not worked in Oracle or have little understanding of Oracle's internal culture, I recommend this nice article about why J…
Is open-sourcing a codebase for an abandoned product somehow expensive or complicated? Are there legal or accounting issues? If not, it seems like buying a bit of good-will for the price of a bit of paperwork would be a useful investment.
Re: “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”
#19Sad news all over industry. Red Hat creating huge mess throughout linux with systemd for years. Solaris killed. Thankfully zfs continues living trough FreeBSD. MariaDB is forked at the last moment. Some of my work depends on VirtualBox. Quote from American Gods: “A single product manufactured by a single company for a single global market. Spicy, medium, or chunky! They get a choice, of course! OF COURSE! But they ar…
> Red Hat creating huge mess throughout linux with systemd for years
Care to elaborate on the 'mess' created? I highly doubt you even used it yourself, sounds like something you've heard and are repeating for some cheap karma. The init scripts used before were the real mess, if you ask me. It's getting really tiring to hear these systemd rants with no good reasons to back them up. I guess ranting against systemd is the cool thing to do, just like calling Apple users sheep once was, there's no need for facts, just hyperbole.
Re: “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”
#20Sad news all over industry. Red Hat creating huge mess throughout linux with systemd for years. Solaris killed. Thankfully zfs continues living trough FreeBSD. MariaDB is forked at the last moment. Some of my work depends on VirtualBox. Quote from American Gods: “A single product manufactured by a single company for a single global market. Spicy, medium, or chunky! They get a choice, of course! OF COURSE! But they ar…
> Red Hat creating huge mess throughout linux with systemd for years Care to elaborate on the 'mess' created? I highly doubt you even used it yourself, sounds like something you've heard and are repeating for some cheap karma. The init scripts used before were the real mess, if you ask me. It's getting really tiring to hear these systemd rants with no good reasons to back them up. I guess ranting against systemd is t…
I am 46 years old, with over 25 years of programming and system administration experience. I've been here before internet existed. You better believe I know what I am talking about.
I couldn't care less about karma kid.