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Re:OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 is here – openindiana by SkyMarshal on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @10:56AM (#21515060)
Its convoluted history looks like this:

Solaris (proprietary) -> Open Solaris -> Illumos -> Open Indiana.

Sun open sourced Solaris, then Oracle bought them and closed sourced it again. But several forks remain of the open-sourced version.

They didn’t help themselves by breaking with the solar/light-themed name either. Few people know the relation of “Indiana” to Solaris. But naming things is hard for some programmers I suppose.

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Re:OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 is here – openindiana by npongratz on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @11:38AM (#21515447)
> But naming things is hard for some programmers I suppose.

Naming things is indeed one of the exactly two hard things in computer science, the others being cache invalidation and off-by-one errors.

I'll see myself out.

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Re:OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 is here – openindiana by LiquidInsect on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:39PM (#21516103)
Three! The three hard things are naming things, cache invaliCONCURRENCYdation, and off by one errors!
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Re:OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 is here – openindiana by ethbro on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @01:41PM (#21516759)
Also, humour.
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Re:OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 is here – openindiana by soperj on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @03:11PM (#21517635)
That's the joke.
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Re:OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 is here – openindiana by nullsmack on Thursday November 14, 2019 @11:50AM (#21536927)
10 print "Read it again"

20 goto 10

RUN

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Re:OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 is here – openindiana by giancarlostoro on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:36PM (#21516062)
> They didn’t help themselves by breaking with the solar/light-themed name either. Few people know the relation of “Indiana” to Solaris. But naming things is hard for some programmers I suppose.

I think I only knew what it was cause I go on DistroWatch a bit to keep tabs on any new distros. I assume not a looot of people do this.

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Re:OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 is here – openindiana by johnisgood on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @02:46PM (#21517389)
I am still not over the fact that Oracle ruined Sun. :( I used OpenSolaris for a long time and I liked it!
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Re:OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 is here – openindiana by lokedhs on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @07:59PM (#21520083)
Me neither. I used to work for Sun, and knowing the culture they destroyed is tragic.
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Re:OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 is here – openindiana by CharlesColeman on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @04:10PM (#21518209)
> Few people know the relation of “Indiana” to Solaris.

What's the relation?

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Re:OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 is here – openindiana by blancNoir on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:57PM (#21519158)
"OpenIndiana obtains its name from Project Indiana, an open source effort by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation) to produce OpenSolaris, a community developed Unix-like distribution based on Sun Solaris. Project Indiana was led by Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian Linux Distribution."[0]

[0] https://www.openindiana.org/documentation/faq/#why-is-it-cal...

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