But like you point out, there is still joy. Software does not die. It may no longer be a commercial product, but it lives on in our hearts. It lives on in our memories. It lives on in the lessons it taught us. However it may have been shaped by humans, we must not forget that the best software turns around and shapes those who use it.
They were my teachers, but more importantly, they were my mentors. They taught me more than I ever realized. I was using the combined wisdom of hundreds of the most talented individuals around. Pay my respects to grace and virtue. Send my condolences to good. Give my regards to soul and romance, They always did the best they could! And so long to devotion. You taught me everything I know. RIP Solaris. It was my favourite OS so far. What an amazing bunch of terrific technologies included in an OS!
And every of them was easy to learn. I will miss you, Solaris. Only time will tell us what we lost today. For me, and for many of us, this is a sad day.
SUN Solaris. I left the Solaris team a year and half ago since I knew this day would come but I really wished I was wrong.
However, I feel honored that I was part of the team that created the best operating system that has been built so far. We missed you Bill! They will find much more satisfaction, respect and money at a different company. It was the one thing they could have used to get an edge on Amazon in the cloud wars.
More than 20 years ago, I decided to build my career on Solaris. Big Irons, robust software, where the really important stuff runs. After my current excursion into Linux territory, I hoped to return fully to the Solaris world soon. Seems like Oracle pulled the rug out beneath my feet now. RIP Solaris, and thanks for the great ride. Though, thanks to Sun and thanks to you guys, we have illumos.
How long will we have support for Solaris kernels illumos only from now on from third parties? The world is moving fast towards virtualization, and if you have solutions based on illumos, you need to be prepared to install on VMware or anything we may have tomorrow. Just few days ago, MongoDB dropped support for Solaris. Not very important to me, but signals. I think that there are two separate questions here: 1 what of illumos itself?
To me, these are separate because I have long come to accept that the Linux binary interface has become the de facto binary interface — and I have believed and continue to believe that the OS must support this interface natively.
To me, this is like BSD vs. System V interfaces back in the day — and Solaris pioneered systems that provided both. So I believe that the presence of LX branded zones allow us to refocus on the system itself — and focus on the system as a container hypervisor, a domain which I believe is a great fit for illumos. I really bitter to say this, but de facto all Unix like OS are dead, Linux killed everyone.
Therefore, to get full isolation, people run containers inside of virtual machines on Linux. Apart from being really clumsy, it incurs a performance penalty for no reason other than wanting to use Linux. Yes it is. But Linux and the entire ecosystem around it is developing very fast. Previously, Linux did not have a counterpart to dtrace, but now it has eBPF.
It is a pity that the source codes of the solaris were opened so late and that the community could not gain a critical mass. There are downsides. Mainly that Linux is still, and will continue to be, a moving target, and that Linux is full of stupid things you have to end up copying in Illumos or whatever host OS you want to use. It sure is appealing on an aesthetic level too.
On an unrelated note: I want to become an expert in illumos kernel debugging with mdb. Do you take on apprentices? Any sense of how support will be managed during the death throes? I have to agree with dhelios. Linux won. The best course would be to try to incorporate the best features of Solaris into Linux itself. The world would be better off. Sun died way before the Oracle acquisition. In ascending order, the following versions of Solaris have been released: Colour Meaning Red. Release no longer supported.
Release still supported. Future release. September SunOS 4 rebranded as Solaris 1 for marketing purposes. June January Preliminary release primarily available to developers only , support for only the sun4c architecture. December May April Support for sun4 and sun4m architectures added; first Solaris x86 release. SPARC-only release. November But its faith in its technical superiority may be misplaced. Linux has momentum: they don't.
In the end, I suspect Sun will probably lose, because Linux is fashionable. Solaris isn't. This article is more than 16 years old. Jack Schofield. Reuse this content.
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