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Why? There is already an active open source fork of Solaris with better licensing terms than what Oracle offers - Illumos / OmniOS - https://illumos.org/ https:
by webmobdev 4y ago
Why? There is already an active open source fork of Solaris with better licensing terms than what Oracle offers - Illumos / OmniOS - https://illumos.org/ https://illumos.org/ .
- cbmuser 4y agoWould be great if Solaris was eventually open-sources again and Illumos could merge all the improvements that were made over the years by Oracle.
- nix23 4y agoProbably the other way around, Illumos made much more improvements, but Oracle cannot profit from it (because not opensource anymore)
- Findecanor 4y agoFrom what I have heard, the core of the OS engineers had left when Oracle acquired Sun back in 2010. And those developers have continued to be the largest contributors to Illumos. So, in essence, Illumos is the real continuation of Sun Solaris.
- srvmshr 4y agoThis is factually true - The exodus from Sun Microsystems started when the takeover news started doing the rounds. The OS team was a shell of what was before. Then Oracle further squeezed that division ~2015-17. All those remain are the switchovers or people who have been promised a lot of TC to keep that brand just about alive.