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Its convoluted history looks like this: Solaris (proprietary) -> Open Solaris -> Illumos -> Open Indiana. Sun open sourced Solaris, then Oracle bought them an

Its convoluted history looks like this: Solaris (proprietary) -> Open Solaris -> Illumos -> Open Indiana. Sun open sourced Solaris, then Oracle bought them and closed sourced it again. But several forks remain of the open-sourced version. They didn’t help themselves by breaking with the solar/light-themed name either. Few people know the relation of “Indiana” to Solaris. But naming things is hard for some programmers I suppose.

npongratz 7y ago
> But naming things is hard for some programmers I suppose. Naming things is indeed one of the exactly two hard things in computer science, the others being cache invalidation and off-by-one errors. I'll see myself out.
- LiquidInsect 7y ago
  Three! The three hard things are naming things, cache invaliCONCURRENCYdation, and off by one errors!
  - ethbro 7y ago
    Also, humour.
  - soperj 7y ago
    That's the joke.
    - nullsmack 7y ago
      10 print "Read it again" 20 goto 10 RUN
giancarlostoro 7y ago
> They didn’t help themselves by breaking with the solar/light-themed name either. Few people know the relation of “Indiana” to Solaris. But naming things is hard for some programmers I suppose. I think I only knew what it was cause I go on DistroWatch a bit to keep tabs on any new distros. I assume not a looot of people do this.
johnisgood 7y ago
I am still not over the fact that Oracle ruined Sun. :( I used OpenSolaris for a long time and I liked it!
- lokedhs 7y ago
  Me neither. I used to work for Sun, and knowing the culture they destroyed is tragic.
CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Few people know the relation of “Indiana” to Solaris. What's the relation?
- blancNoir 7y ago
  "OpenIndiana obtains its name from Project Indiana, an open source effort by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation) to produce OpenSolaris, a community developed Unix-like distribution based on Sun Solaris. Project Indiana was led by Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian Linux Distribution."[0] [0] https://www.openindiana.org/documentation/faq/#why-is-it-called-openindiana https://www.openindiana.org/documentation/faq/#why-is-it-cal...

npongratz 7y ago

> But naming things is hard for some programmers I suppose. Naming things is indeed one of the exactly two hard things in computer science, the others being cache invalidation and off-by-one errors. I'll see myself out.

LiquidInsect 7y ago
Three! The three hard things are naming things, cache invaliCONCURRENCYdation, and off by one errors!
- ethbro 7y ago
  Also, humour.
- soperj 7y ago
  That's the joke.
  - nullsmack 7y ago
    10 print "Read it again" 20 goto 10 RUN

giancarlostoro 7y ago

> They didn’t help themselves by breaking with the solar/light-themed name either. Few people know the relation of “Indiana” to Solaris. But naming things is hard for some programmers I suppose. I think I only knew what it was cause I go on DistroWatch a bit to keep tabs on any new distros. I assume not a looot of people do this.

johnisgood 7y ago

I am still not over the fact that Oracle ruined Sun. :( I used OpenSolaris for a long time and I liked it!

lokedhs 7y ago
Me neither. I used to work for Sun, and knowing the culture they destroyed is tragic.

CharlesColeman 7y ago

> Few people know the relation of “Indiana” to Solaris. What's the relation?

blancNoir 7y ago
"OpenIndiana obtains its name from Project Indiana, an open source effort by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation) to produce OpenSolaris, a community developed Unix-like distribution based on Sun Solaris. Project Indiana was led by Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian Linux Distribution."[0] [0] https://www.openindiana.org/documentation/faq/#why-is-it-called-openindiana https://www.openindiana.org/documentation/faq/#why-is-it-cal...