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I remember the Oracle acquisition and the subsequent squelch of chatter in #opensolaris and #nexenta on irc. I worked on porting a ton of Debian packages to Nex

I remember the Oracle acquisition and the subsequent squelch of chatter in #opensolaris and #nexenta on irc. I worked on porting a ton of Debian packages to Nexenta and used it in a university setting along side Linux and macOS hosts. It was hard to see all of that work become somewhat worthless with Oracle's acquisition of Sun. It was an extra slap on the face that Sun hardware that I personally owned outright had a firmware bug that Sun released for free that I then had to pay for an Oracle subscription to download. ZFS, Dtrace, Zones, iSCSI, SMF ... all rock solid and extremely usable. I never liked the antiquated package management in Solaris thus my involvement in Nexenta. Solaris being "free" 8 years later means nothing to revive any of this. If anything, it signals that Oracle is taking steps to stop considering this as a product.

freedomben 5y ago
I remember that well too. I ran OpenSolaris om my laptop for years because at the time it had the best hardware support for what I had. I had damn near turned into a fanboy when the Oracle acquisition happened and they yanked the rug out. I was disappointed at the time and remained so for years, especially when I found an old laptop with opensolaris on it a couple years back and got super nostalgic. In hindsight, it was probably the best thing for Linux though. When I was hunting for open source OSes there were plenty of people like me recommending OpenSolaris to new users. Once that happened all the oxygen got sucked out of the room. Yeah the ship has long since sailed. This isn't going to make any difference to reviving Solaris. It's too far behind now and even if it weren't, it's a "fool me once" kind of thing.
rbanffy 5y ago
> Oracle is taking steps to stop considering this as a product. And even then, they refuse to license it under CDDL.
ksec 5y ago
>If anything, it signals that Oracle is taking steps to stop considering this as a product. One of the thing on my list if I ever become stupidly wealthy is to buy all those technology from Oracle and release them in BSD / MIT.

freedomben 5y ago

I remember that well too. I ran OpenSolaris om my laptop for years because at the time it had the best hardware support for what I had. I had damn near turned into a fanboy when the Oracle acquisition happened and they yanked the rug out. I was disappointed at the time and remained so for years, especially when I found an old laptop with opensolaris on it a couple years back and got super nostalgic. In hindsight, it was probably the best thing for Linux though. When I was hunting for open source OSes there were plenty of people like me recommending OpenSolaris to new users. Once that happened all the oxygen got sucked out of the room. Yeah the ship has long since sailed. This isn't going to make any difference to reviving Solaris. It's too far behind now and even if it weren't, it's a "fool me once" kind of thing.

rbanffy 5y ago

> Oracle is taking steps to stop considering this as a product. And even then, they refuse to license it under CDDL.

ksec 5y ago

>If anything, it signals that Oracle is taking steps to stop considering this as a product. One of the thing on my list if I ever become stupidly wealthy is to buy all those technology from Oracle and release them in BSD / MIT.