The Future of OpenSolaris Revealed

ywlke writes "A few hours ago, an internal Oracle memo was leaked to the osol-discuss mailing list at opensolaris.org. It details Oracle's plans for Solaris and OpenSolaris; namely that OpenSolaris, the distribution, is dead. Solaris Express has come back from the grave, and source code will still be CDDL, but won't be released to the public until some time after it is incorporated into a binary release. What happens to the community now is anybody's guess." The full text of the memo is available on the mailing list, as well as apparent confirmation from an Oracle employee. That said, no official announcement has yet been made.

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[Billly Gates]

I used and liked FreeBSD a long time ago.

My USB keyboard was supported in FreeBSD 3.4 before Linux and I was deeply impressed. FreeBSD 5.x didn't even support it?? FreeBSD 5.2 came out and I still kept using FreeBSD 4.11 and 4.12 and I realized that the writing was on the wall.

I have not used it in years as Linux caught up but Linux is now very bloated and not like it once was. FreeBSD is bloated now as well and not as stable.

Surprisingly Fedora has been the most stable and not as cutting edge compared to Debian and Ubuntu on my laptop. You should give Fedora a try again as its not the unstable bleeding edge junk it was.

I like Solaris as a server and prefer it. FreeBSD has lost its once solid stability record a while back. Its still more stable than Linux for ISPs but Windows is catching up and Solaris has already been there.