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Re:Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To by unmole on Monday July 10, 2023 @09:33PM (#36675420)
> Oracle does maintain Solaris, which would seem to me to entail a much larger support burden than Red Hat's stewardship of their enterprise Linux distribution.

Solaris was effectively killed off in 2017 when Oracle laid off most people working on it. And Open Solaris is dead too.

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Re:Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To by nubinetwork on Monday July 10, 2023 @11:34PM (#36676130)
Illumos effectively died when most of their corporate support switched to Linux. Had nothing to do with Oracle.

That said, I believe OpenIndiana is still being maintained, but their release cycle is rather slow.

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Re:Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To by jclulow on Sunday July 16, 2023 @06:04AM (#36745256)
Rumours of our death are, as ever, greatly exaggerated. We continue to maintain the core OS facilities provided by illumos and the organisations behind distributions like SmartOS and OmniOS continue to ship maintained, supported software to a mixture of community and commercial users.
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