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Originally posted by cl333r View Postwow fanboyism. I obviously mean that it's only got a tiny server market share which has been shrinking for like 10 years with or without open source Solaris based/like distros. So what's the fight about? For the sake of having something besides Linux/BSD? That's the grand idea?
I don't see any interest in it from anyone except basically those who worked with it in the past a lot.
So what are the grand plans except for keeping it around? There were plans for it to make meaning for the Mac world through ZFS but even that has been dropped.
So why are you complaining?
NOTE: I don't use Solaris or *BSD, but I just hate trolls.
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wow fanboyism. I obviously mean that it's only got a tiny server market share which has been shrinking for like 10 years with or without open source Solaris based/like distros. So what's the fight about? For the sake of having something besides Linux/BSD? That's the grand idea?
I don't see any interest in it from anyone except basically those who worked with it in the past a lot.
So what are the grand plans except for keeping it around? There were plans for it to make meaning for the Mac world through ZFS but even that has been dropped.
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1. This is another FOSS project with an obscure (absurd) name.
2. Have they finally upgraded to GCC 4 yet?
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Originally posted by cl333r View PostWhy do they care that much. The only place where Solaris matters is among servers but even there it's been losing market share for a long time and has already a tiny marketshare, it's not poised to be popular on the desktop nor on mobiles or supercomputers, sooner or later ZFS will face Btrfs and DTrace - FTrace, so there's getting less and less incentive to keep it alive besides for legacy setups. Of course I oversimplified the issue but not by a lot, you get the main points.
Why replace it rather than continuing to build on it?
They will now continue developing the code base with or without Oracle, it's not like ZFS, DTrace and other technologies are standing still.
I suppose your argument is that the Solaris community and the BSDs should just shut down and everyone should use and contribute to one OS. Good thing others think differently.
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Originally posted by cl333r View PostWhy do they care that much. The only place where Solaris matters is among servers but even there it's been losing market share for a long time and has already a tiny marketshare, it's not poised to be popular on the desktop nor on mobiles or supercomputers, sooner or later ZFS will face Btrfs and DTrace - FTrace, so there's getting less and less incentive to keep it alive besides for legacy setups. Of course I oversimplified the issue but not by a lot, you get the main points.
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Why do they care that much. The only place where Solaris matters is among servers but even there it's been losing market share for a long time and has already a tiny marketshare, it's not poised to be popular on the desktop nor on mobiles or supercomputers, sooner or later ZFS will face Btrfs and DTrace - FTrace, so there's getting less and less incentive to keep it alive besides for legacy setups. Of course I oversimplified the issue but not by a lot, you get the main points.
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Today is a good day. Everyone wins from this. Regardless of future development with the official OpenSolaris and Oracle this will be a good thing and contribute to the community either way.
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The OpenSolaris-based Illumos Project Announced
Phoronix: The OpenSolaris-based Illumos Project Announced
Last week we reported on the Illumos project that may be a fork of OpenSolaris coming out of the OpenSolaris community being shafted by Oracle. Not many details were known at that time, but now the Nexenta-sponsored Illumos project has formally introduced itself...
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