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A new Oracle Solaris Common Build Environment (CBE) release
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- dsr_ 7mo agoI suppose they are looking for people who had not previously stuck their hand in the lawnmower.
- buildbot 7mo agoI was looking up the Sparc S8 mentioned in the article and the first discussion that came up is quickly derailed due to worrying about copyright: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/sparclinux/patch/20251118.142521.973960159957848254.rene@exactco.de/ https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/sparclinux/patch/202511...
- ForHackernews 7mo agoShades of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHW58D-_O64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHW58D-_O64
- kl4m 7mo ago"You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s Start at 33:02 for full rant.
- imglorp 7mo agoWho's the target audience for that announcement? a. Existing customers already got their hands chopped, their prices raised, or their lawyers poked. They're stuck with an abusive, litigious, opaque vendor and will migrate out when they can. Many are stuck. b. Prospective customers must have some compatibility need or they'd look elsewhere. c. Developers won't be fooled so rule them out :)
- whalesalad 7mo agoI wonder where Solaris is still actively being deployed and used.
- nine_k 7mo agoSolaris proper, not Illumos?
- whalesalad 7mo agoEither way, SPARC and the entire family seem to be entirely dead in the grand scheme of things. I don't know why anyone would develop for this platform.
- claudex 7mo agoSolaris and Illumos are available on x86
- nubinetwork 7mo agoBut illumos doesn't run on sparc... granted I don't have the hardware, but if I did, it would be nice if I could use illumos.
- shrubble 7mo agoTribblix does, which is based on illumos - I have a V210 I installed it on, not too long ago...
- iberator 7mo agoNope. Oracle SPARC S7, T8, and Fujitsu SPARC M12 still supported
- whalesalad 7mo agosupported sure but its an ancient dying platform. sparc was discontinued almost 10 years ago.
- jordemort 7mo ago"We're about to take a bath on these datacenters, do we have any other viable lines of business left?"
- heybales 7mo agoThe Oracle business model is to rope you into a contract, set you up for failure, ignore you until you violate a license agreement, then sue you and rope you into another contract to avoid the lawsuit. If you're an Oracle customer, prepare to get sued... for something... anything really.
- shrubble 7mo agoIllumos/OpenSolaris etc are great and install about as easily as FreeBSD, on desktop and server systems with Ethernet. Other stuff like WiFi etc is not as well supported. It’s still my favorite OS, if it fits what I need it for.
- maztaim 7mo agoWhat are your needs that it would fit? Oracle have you by the database?
- pjmlp 7mo agoIt remains one of my favourite UNIX as well, back in the day I mused even to buy one of those Toshiba that came with Solaris. Other than a others like Irix, QNX or NeXTSTEP, I am not picky in what form UNIX/POSIX gets made available.
- pharaohgeek 7mo agoStarted using Solaris 7 in college when Sun made it available for free. All you had to do was fill out a web form! I absolutely loved it. To this day it remains my favorite OS to use. I love macOS and its ease of use (plus its Unix-ish support) but there's something about Solaris that always made me feel like I was doing "real" work.
- RobotToaster 7mo agoI think I'd rather use hpux than deal with oracle
- nubinetwork 7mo agoHpux died on December 31, 2025
- fweimer 7mo agoMature Software Product Support without Sustaining Engineering through at least 31-Dec-2028 Apparently, it's out of support the same way RHEL 6 is out of support.
- HackerThemAll 7mo agoI have not touched anything related to Oracle for as long as I remember.