If you are interested, this talk says a lot about what was cool about Solaris, its place in history, the troubles it encountered, and what was wrong with Oracle

If you are interested, this talk says a lot about what was cool about Solaris, its place in history, the troubles it encountered, and what was wrong with Oracle's approach, leading to little-known open-source forks. https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc (entitled: Fork yeah! The rise and development of Illumos)