Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037

Re:Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 by joncp on Monday January 29, 2024 @07:41PM (#39184875)

> customers so inept that...

I used to think like that until I got to see some legacy systems in action. Sometimes it just makes financial sense to keep paying Larry and avoid a big rewrite.

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Re:Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 by dijit on Monday January 29, 2024 @07:43PM (#39184883)

This, and also Solaris was years ahead in some areas. Hopefully linux will overtake it completely before 2037.

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Re:Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 by josephcsible on Monday January 29, 2024 @07:58PM (#39185007)

Are there any such advantages that you can't get with illumos?

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Re:Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 by dijit on Monday January 29, 2024 @08:13PM (#39185147)

Support. (Like, official vendor support & hardware support)

It's really nice to type a command and see a CLI representation of where the drives are physically located on your system for example.

All the IllumOS distributions are defunct (SmartOS hasn't seen a release since 2020 and that's the most recent) aside from OpenIndiana, which I haven't looked at in a long time.

*EDIT:* Seems OpenIndiana is not binary compatible due to using glibc over Sun Studios libc. Which might prevent some people from switching.

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Re:Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 by unethical_ban on Monday January 29, 2024 @08:23PM (#39185236)

https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/sm...

SmartOS is used by Triton, and still is developed, to some extent.

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Re:Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:57AM (#39192462)

> All the IllumOS distributions are defunct (SmartOS hasn't seen a release since 2020 and that's the most recent) aside from OpenIndiana, which I haven't looked at in a long time.

Er, what?

Tribblix 0m33 2023-12-14 https://tribblix.blogspot.com/2023/12/changes-in-0m33-prerel...

OmniOS CE r151048 2023-11-06 https://omnios.org/article/r48.html

SmartOS 20240125T000404Z 2024-01-25 https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/sm...

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Re:Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 by dijit on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @12:31PM (#39192998)

noghtly builds are not releases

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Re:Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @01:43PM (#39193945)

Where are you seeing nightlies? The OmniOS release notes I linked open with

> On the 6th of November 2023, the OmniOSce Association has released a new stable version of OmniOS

And the tribblix release doesn't look like a nightly.

The SmartOS one... might be? But AFAICT it's just rolling release.

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Re:Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 by chasil on Monday January 29, 2024 @07:54PM (#39184966)

I wonder if bcachefs can do it.

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Re:Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 by jeffbee on Monday January 29, 2024 @09:06PM (#39185559)

Solaris may have had a handful of helpful features but even by the late 1990s it was obviously inferior in numerous ways to Linux and BSDs. One of the most obvious manifestations of how slow it was was the overwhelming latency of fork, orders of magnitude slower than its free competitors and the reason its ecosystem needed hacked up threads libraries. The system was sprinkled with surprise complexity traps that could kill you in production, including the fact that its TCP receive path was O(N) in the number of IP addresses associated with a given network interface, meaning if you tried to hang an entire subnet off 1 port the system would effectively hang. In 1998 the people I worked with could not run away from Sun quickly enough. As soon as we could port anything to FreeBSD, we did. The writing was on the wall even then.

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Re:Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 by pjmlp on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @04:08AM (#39187906)

By 2006, Nokia was still mostly a HP-UX and Solaris shop on the networking side, and CERN still had quite a few Solaris boxes, with Scientific Linux project alongside Fermilabs slowly taking off in 2003.

Not everyone was racing to jump out of UNIX proper during the late-1990's.

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Re:Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 by jeffbee on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:54AM (#39192422)

The article specifically discusses Solaris as a gleaming success for web startups in the 1990s. I am here to tell you that as a member of that scene, I would have burned Solaris at the stake if it had a suitable physical manifestation.

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Re:Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 by pjmlp on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @02:59PM (#39194893)

And I am here to say, I had more fun with Solaris during dotcom wave that ever had, or will, with GNU/Linux.

Same applies to a couple of big UNIX names, with a proper integrated experience.

Pity about that Google Android torpedo.

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Re:Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 by robotnikman on Monday January 29, 2024 @07:53PM (#39184954)

Yep, same reason why a lot of businesses also still run AS/400

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