GCC 15 Bids Farewell To Solaris 11.3 Support

[DanL]

Which is why I want to see IBM AIX and HP-UX can close down too to further benefit Linux.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but AIX isn't going anywhere any time soon, and IBM has plenty of Linux offerings, so that's really not an issue (unless you're a total zealot).

HP-UX will be supported for a while, even if active development is set to die next year. Customers bought multimillion dollar systems as recently as a few years ago. There's no reason to want support for those systems to disappear (unless you're a total zealot).

FreeDOS might have served a role two decades ago but it is less relevant than ever with UEFI and Linux. FreeDOS should just close down too.

Plenty of people still use FreeDOS for retro gaming, running legacy DOS stuff, flashing their BIOS, etc. Just because you don't use it, doesn't mean it should die. Even if you don't use it, you shouldn't wish for it to die (unless you're a total zealot).

[Developer12]

And Solaris is still used in the form of OpenIndiana. HP-UX also has quite a few customers left.

This version of solaris is dead. The following one is being kept. GCC support for openindiana is yet again another thing entirely.

[Developer12]

How many OpenIndiana devs are there? One or two? They should just close down and move on to Linux instead.

Yeah, which is why I want to see IBM AIX and HP-UX can close down too to further benefit Linux.

IBM should close down AIX and move off their customers to Linux.

FreeDOS might have served a role two decades ago but it is less relevant than ever with UEFI and Linux. FreeDOS should just close down too.

HP-UX should to close down and migrate over to Linux.

Linux can't fill the role people have for openindiana. Linux can't fill the role people have for AIX. Closing down either project won't benefit linux, because nobody working on either is interested in working on linux, and none of their customers have any use for linux.

Good to know you have absolutely no idea what FreeDOS has ever been used for. FreeDOS didn't even exist when people were still booting linux from MS-DOS using grub4dos.

[jacob]

And Solaris is still used in the form of OpenIndiana. HP-UX also has quite a few customers left.

True, but there would be orders of magnitude less users. DOSBox ships FreeDOS so that's quite a large user base.

[jacob]

Linux can't fill the role people have for openindiana. Linux can't fill the role people have for AIX. Closing down either project won't benefit linux, because nobody working on either is interested in working on linux, and none of their customers have any use for linux.

Good to know you have absolutely no idea what FreeDOS has ever been used for. FreeDOS didn't even exist when people were still booting linux from MS-DOS using grub4dos.

What exactly are your sources to claim that "nobody" who has been working on Solaris or AIX is interested in working on Linux? In fact Linux received substantial contributions specifically coming from AIX (RCU is one). Their customers mostly run Oracle (in the case of Solaris) where a move to Linux is not a question of if but when, since it's an officially supported platform. For AIX, just google "migrate from AIX to Linux" and you will see for yourself how many people are "not interested" in doing it. Have a good life in your alternate universe, fanboy.

[Estranged1906]

So is Illumos / OpenIndiana still supported by GCC 15?

[mxan]

For those wondering about illumos (OpenIndiana, OmniOS, SmartOS, Tribblix etc) - illumos has always relied on a custom patched version of GCC 7.

https://illumos.org/docs/developers/build/