Stev, did you read the archive of this mailing list? Take the last 2 months, and you'll get all the answers you need. In short: OSOL is alive and kicking!
Matthias You (badmagic) wrote: > 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 -- Matthias Pfützner | Tel.: +49 700 PFUETZNER | Plötzlich hat [Lubitsch] Lichtenbergstr.73 | mailto:matth...@pfuetzner.de | also Schokolade aus D-64289 Darmstadt | AIM: pfuetz, ICQ: 300967487 | Hühnerscheiße gemacht. Germany | http://www.pfuetzner.de/matthias/ | Billy Wilder _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org