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vishnu
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I remember the days when 64 bit SPARC (and MIPS) made everything Intel did look silly. Man! Good times... :cry:
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It looks like Oracle is building Linux for SPARC. I wonder how much progress they have made since 2015.

https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linux-sparc/
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vishnu
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According to Alan Coopersmith's twitter on Dec. 2d: "There's still several times the number of kernel devs working on Oracle Solaris than on all the illumos distros combined."
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Temporarily lost at sea...
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World domination! Or something...
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well that's not too bad given the current market situation. i don't care about having a solaris 11.4 or 12 as long as it's not dead :-)
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vishnu wrote: According to Alan Coopersmith's twitter on Dec. 2d: "There's still several times the number of kernel devs working on Oracle Solaris than on all the illumos distros combined."


This is not comforting at all, I'd rather have most development happen away from the grasp of Oracle.
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Some follow up regarding the new Solaris roadmap at Ars - http://arstechnica.com/information-tech ... 12-effort/

Also, rumors of layoff announcements coming at Oracle tomorrow (19 Jan 2017; see comments at the link jan-jaap shared https://www.thelayoff.com/t/KTCW4qz ).
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Good fucking riddance. This will free up lots of developers for other projects.
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Raion-Fox wrote: Good fucking riddance. This will free up lots of developers for other projects.


Yeah. I guess the time has run out for Solaris.

SAQ wrote: I've never really trusted FreeBSD - there's something wrong about a BSD that doesn't support any DEC architectures, but that's just on a gut level as technically it seems pretty good.


They used to have Alpha support, but it didn't last very long. It seems Alpha dosen't get much love these days, which is a pity because they are nice machines. I can understand why they wouldn't support VAX. Even OpenBSD was eventually forced to concede on that.
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josehill wrote: Some follow up regarding the new Solaris roadmap at Ars - http://arstechnica.com/information-tech ... 12-effort/

well having a roadmap for more than a couple of years is naive in the IT industry. as far as interpreting that roadmap image goes, that doesn't tell much so pretty much the whole article is guesswork.
anyhow having less and less diversity on the market is the very opposite of what's needed. and in case of such a classic like solaris it'd be even more unfortunate.