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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.

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.

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...

Re:Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 by dijit on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @12:31PM (#39192998)
noghtly builds are not releases
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.