Some of you know Solaris very well, you either were a sysadmin or you use it at college. So why do we let Oracle kill Solaris?
Don't! Solaris should be GPL'ed to ensure it survives and has a chance. So stand up, don't be lazy for once and start petitions, complain on forums, social websites, IRC. Make a riot that Orcale can't ignore.
Honestly I think that nobody actually used it. I'd want it go GPL though.
Carson Morales
>Solaris should be GPL'ed to ensure it survives and has a chance Thought solaris already was open source? Besides, why should anyone care? It doesn't do anything special and it doesn't even run particularly well.
Blake Parker
Why would anyone care? Because Solaris is UNIX and shouldn't die.
Why do you even post here for starters.
Jeremiah Brooks
every one knows what happens with open source products when Oracle buys a company, no surprises here. The day they anonunced that MySql was going to get bought by Oracle that was the day Libreoffice and Mariadb apeared.
Robert Morgan
Many other forms of UNIX operating systems have died before and more will probably follow. Seriously, can you give one good reason to use Solaris?
Nicholas Rivera
Just use Linux like a normal person...
Isaiah Thomas
KEVIN
Austin Carter
As a C++ dev that has to support Solaris and work with SunStudio, let me say this: fucking finally!
Aiden Clark
SMF true containers (not hacked together cgroups/namespaces) dtrace
wait..you've never used Solaris have you?
Landon Long
>wait..you've never used Solaris have you? Actually, my mother was a programmer for a local company focusing on their solaris systems in the 80s. I grew up with solaris and didn't get a windows machine until I was given my own P3 machine in '99. That's completely irrelevant because you still haven't come up with a single good reason to use solaris over anything else.
Brandon Nguyen
There is an open source solaris fork
Leo Williams
>dtrace >not relevant
Kek, go back to your roleplaying, kid.
Cooper Wood
>Make a riot that Orcale can't ignore. >JAVA + rights to api oracle randomly sues people including google >MySQL >Solaris OpenIndiana is just sad, stable but sad >ZFS it's also sad, that best file system is unusable becouse of shitty license
Angel Russell
>I don't know what I'm talking about SystemTap and the ported version of dtrace would like a word with you.
Still waiting for a good reason to use solaris above anything else. Apparently you can't read.
Caleb Watson
>why invent anything when we can just poorly port the good shit from good OS's.
Linux in a nutshell and why Solaris should exist. It is where innovation is born.
Christian Ramirez
>It' just a p-p-poor p-p-port! L-l-Linux is shit! Yeah, awesome. Can we talk about how Solaris has been completely stagnant for the past decade or so and how there's no reason to use it any more?
Sebastian Thompson
Actually, Linux doesn't port much. They have a "it must be born here" approach. They do rip off a lot of good ideas from commercial OS's, but they do it very poorly.
Angel Long
Solaris is way too niche for Sup Forums to know or care about.
I dont know the curresnt state of legal affairs of Solaris, but if its opensource, then fork that shit, if its not, well its a product that a company decided to retire.
Hold to your OS until its hardware falls apart or until it is not safe to use.
Jacob Price
Solaris has already been innovative, Linux is still playing catchup to 2005 era Solaris. Name one the that Linux can do that Solaris can't.
smf > systemd solaris zones > lxd (namespaces/cgroups (which was ripped from plan9) dtrace > anything linux has zfs > butterfinger FS
Jackson Morales
Solaris is not open source anymore but OpenSolaris' community didn't just go away they formed their own fork and continued work there.
Parker James
True, but most of the code is coming from the smartOS crew, which is now owned by samsung.
Adrian Adams
Seems like a good thing to me. Samsung isn't likely to discontinue SmartOS or contributions to illumos if they went through the trouble of acquiring them. Solaris will live on
John Harris
who cares about OS will they make new SPARC?
Jackson Jones
SPARC is even deader than Solaris. Hardware is expensive to produce and nothing except Solaris runs on SPARC I think
Joshua Russell
Literally who actually cares?
Ayden Sanchez
try harder faggot
Ian Campbell
Nobody, but it would be nice to see the code that they have created since closing the source. Especially since they moved zones to use OpenBSD's pf from ipfw. Something the smartos/illumos guys said would be to hard to do.
>once again Sup Forums reverts back to ricer tier rather than being anything of substance.
Levi Ortiz
I bet you don't even use monospaced fonts either
Joseph Edwards
I bet you've never kissed a girl.
Isaiah Phillips
>plebs still not using orenstien.
Owen Lewis
I've kissed your mom
William Wilson
Jokes on you; I have two dads, faggot.
Jacob Reyes
she says she's very disappointed in you
Logan Green
>no article or source again >Don't! Solaris should be GPL'ed to ensure it survives and has a chance. So stand up, don't be lazy for once and start petitions, complain on forums, social websites, IRC. Make a riot that Orcale can't ignore. GPL doesn't fix bugs, doesn't bring in developers, it doesn't do shit. Illumos already exists and it's deader than a fucking doornail as it is.
Gavin Harris
>Illumos already exists and it's deader than a fucking doornail as it is. You don't know much do you.
James Reed
Is there even a slightly successful Illumos platform beyond SmartOS which even then doesn't seem to be used anywhere to appreciable levels? OI is a fucking mess and everything else is dead or irrelevant.
Opening the code doesn't make a shitty product less shit on its own.
Chase Hill
>I don't like it so it's dead.
ok.
Evan Sanders
>I can't offer any actual counterpoint so I'll just keep acting like it's blatantly obvious to save face Yeah, who's the one who knows dick here? I've daily driven my share of Illumos operating systems, they're fucking shit.
Ayden White
A simple look into the github shows that dev hasn't died. You just repeated your ignorance >I don't like it so it's dead.
keep repeating yourself mongoloid.
Jaxon Gutierrez
Solaris on Intel is called slowlaris for a reason.
>gpl
It would be nice, but it wouldn't make me move to it. Too much installed base for linux here to care.
Larry is a cancer. Everything he touches he turns to shit, deliberately. Why people use Oracle at all if they don't have to mystifies me.
Michael Collins
>A simple look into the github shows that dev hasn't died Ah, yes, the old "I'll take the meaning literally and preserve my delusion" trick, I bet you think HP-UX is still kicking too because they patch it every once and a while.
It's fucking dead, dude, nobody's using it, nobody's developing for it but the SmartOS team, even the BSDs have a more prolific community of non-core developers and a shit tons more users, that should tell you something right off the bat.
Luke Bailey
Gentoo runs on SPARC
Cooper James
It should tell you something that samsung just purchased joyent. But hey it's dead. right?