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The Future of OpenSolaris

Posted by kdawson on from the setting-sun dept.

jjrff writes "Phoronix has a little piece about the future (or lack thereof) of OpenSolaris. It appears based on the current support lifecycle, OpenSolaris may be going away. There is a fun thread (read: mild flameage) on a ZFS list about it."

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  1. Re:I wanted to like OpenSolaris but... by Kjella · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Of course it didn't. It's not a desktop OS (...) I made damn sure to check the HCL

    Sorry, but this has nothing with being a desktop OS and everything about that in 2010 people expect to drop in an OS and have it work on any reasonable hardware. Maybe not the supported, recommended configuration but they still expect it to work. Windows and Linux runs on almost any server, Solaris/AIX/OS X Server etc. only come on their supported hardware and everything else is fail. You see exactly the same on desktops except there Windwos runs on almost any desktop, OS X only comes on its supported hardware and Linux is fail. It's just as unfair when people expect to plug in any USB printer or gadget in Linux and have it work, but the world isn't fair.

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