Originally posted by aht0
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Plus you wrote illumos with big "I" again , when you are clearly already said it is "illumos".
There are very good reasons brands are different, licenses are different, source models, distribution models ,compatibility, development models are different.
As you probably understand now, there are illumos distributions as are Linux distributions.
If you need to check family of OSes you simply can't just type Solaris for whole family of different distributions that are not Solaris anymore, but illumos.
Closest form before illumos time was "Opensolaris-derived" but that is something of the past now.
It is like you would say Linux is Unix, but it is not, it us Unix-like.
illumos on the other hand , as project evolved from OpenSolaris and Solaris 10 and illumos IS Unix System V family, the only one core OS that is open in that System V UNIX-derived branch.
When you say proprietary "Solaris" , you should expect binary compatibility of both drivers and software.
illumos moved to GCC compiler long time ago , not maintaining binary compatibility with Solaris and it is more in line with other free software projects.
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