Hi all,
It seems (I'm afraid that) ever since Oracle took over Sun Microsystems,
Solaris stands to die a protracted and painful death by attrition.
I used to download the snv-xxx releases and liked them very much. They
were released quite regularly but OpenSolaris seems to have been stuck
on 2009.06 for a long time. I know it can be upgraded but it's not
something I've done yet because the whole NWAM stuff didn't work for my
wireless NIC. I had to turn it off and manually configure networking.
That's just an excuse but I never got used to OpenSolaris.
I must admit, ever since Orafice took over, I've lost all enthusiasm for
Solaris of any kind. I loved Solaris. It was (is) true UNIX. None of
this BSD UNIX-"like" stuff and Linux is not even related.
This had to happen, and I've got an E450, an E250, a Sun Blade 1500 and
an Ultra 5 set up in my garage here on my home (hobby) network and now
I've lost all inclination.
I'm using Solaris on all of the Sun machines and some x86 servers and
snv121 on my laptop and desktop PC. Now I've got to decide whether to go
back to FreeBSD, OpenBSD or find a half way decent Linux distro again.
I know it's open source but will OpenSolaris die off soon through lack
of interest/funding, whatever, or can I get interested in that?
Am I the only one who feels this way about Sun Microsystems & Solaris?
Regards,
Steve Laurie
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