OpenSolaris cancelled by Oracle.

druuna · 08-16-2010, 03:38 AM

Hi all,

Just noticed this: OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

I haven't been able to find anything else yet except this leaked internal memo to the OpenSolaris mailing list mentioned above. Guess more will surface soon enough.....

EDIT:

I just found these as well:
- OpenSolaris is Dead (blog)
- OpenSolaris axed (The Register)

Alexvader · 08-16-2010, 07:29 AM

...oh man...

I was investing a lot of my time to getting to know and use this...

Blinker_Fluid · 08-16-2010, 10:18 AM

links...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20...=2547-1_3-0-20

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08...laris_is_dead/

beetleman64 · 08-16-2010, 03:21 PM

I suppose it was inevitable. Oracle have been ignoring OpenSolaris for too long to make any news good news. It now leaves Nexenta with a 3/4 finished desktop OS but probably without the means to develop it properly. While it's fairly reassuring to hear that OpenSolaris will exist in SOME form, it's as good as dead.

Seems it might be time to look closer at Linux or BSD for your UNIX fix.

mjolnir · 08-16-2010, 03:28 PM

Oh well I may scrub my vbox implimentation of build 134. TimeSlider and zfs were most interesting to me. I may try FreeBSD with zfs or wait for Ubuntu 10.10 with multi-touch and btrfs.