Comments on: OpenSolaris is now officially dead. RIP.

By: RG, what flavor for ZFS?

RG, what flavor for ZFS? — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:05:13 +0000

[...] what flavor for ZFS? Now that OpenSolaris is officially dead, what are my options for a Solaris-like server OS that supports ZFS? As you may remember, I’ve [...]

By: OpenSolaris is now DEAD! « Migration King

OpenSolaris is now DEAD! « Migration King — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:57:55 +0000

[...] you haven’t READ the memo of a communication from Oracle and you are running OpenSolaris in production. Feel free [...]

By: Toni

Toni — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:32:41 +0000

May it rest in peace. I loved it… many years ago.

By: jj

jj — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:20:30 +0000

For me, this means FreeBSD is what’s left in the arena of solid (i.e., doesn’t fall apart between releases, like Linux distros), integrated (i.e., not a clump of upstream stuff) is FreeBSD.

Thanks for letting me know, I was beginning to study OpenSolaris but I’ll focus on FreeBSD. They never let me down, in all these years.

By: digitalMoto.net » The King is dead. Long live the King…

digitalMoto.net » The King is dead. Long live the King… — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:46:46 +0000

[...] OpenSolaris is now officially dead. RIP. [...]

By: jameslegg

jameslegg — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:12:13 +0000

Which was the last “open source” project that gets sources released after a release? Oh yes that would be Mac OS X/Darwin. Hows that community doing? As far as I can tell it’s alive but hardly thriving.
I don’t mean to be negative but its going to take a lot of hard work by a lot of people to keep a viable alternative to an enterprise Solaris alive. I truly hope the community is up to the challange.

By: Giovanni Tirloni » Blog Archive » Oracle, OpenSolaris and Acceptance

Giovanni Tirloni » Blog Archive » Oracle, OpenSolaris and Acceptance — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:18:19 +0000

[...] from it. In other words, open source is not in its core values and I attribute the OpenSolaris death to that. Any Oracle employee trying to convince her boss that open source is a viable option for a [...]

By: Mark Acosta

Mark Acosta — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:10:35 +0000

First java, then this, what’s next? MySQL? ;( If I was an oracle engineer at this time I would quit immediatly…

By: gwern

gwern — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:03:34 +0000

> We will distribute updates to approved CDDL or other open source- licensed code following full releases of our enterprise Solaris operating system. In this manner, new technology innovations will show up in our releases before anywhere else. We will no longer distribute source code for the entirety of the Solaris operating system in real-time while it is developed, on a nightly basis.

That’s the important bit. Now who will want to develop Solaris, knowing that their sources are years out of date, that it will be years before an accepted contribution makes it to the wild, that at any time an Oracle/Sun employee working on the real sources will unwittingly break one’s patches because they don’t know about it? This is not making Free contributions a second-class citizen, but a third or fourth-class!

By: Blogreader

Blogreader — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:06:54 +0000

Amusing read by these corporate drones. By mentioning that 130k people don’t use solaris it is obvious that they see this as a zero sum game. For them to win someone must lose. They are channeling Larry channeling Genhis Khan.