Re: [orca-list] What happened to solaris?

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

I have been informed by at least one knowledgeable sysadmin that solaris 
at current version is less secure than Linux.  This may go a way toward 
explaining why Oracle wasn't interested. On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Steve Holmes 
wrote:

> Open Solaris is dead! Yes, Oracle killed another one.  As of August 31st 
> 2010, The committee that supported OpenSolaris was officially disbanded after 
> Oracle made it know that it was pulling the plug and had no further interest 
> in supporting it.
>
> Had OpenSolaris been licensed differently, it could have been forked and kept 
> alive by the community.  That's why licensing detail is so important.  Even 
> though most of Solaris was supposedly open source, it could not be 
> redistributed by anyone else so it is now dead.  Thanks, Oracle.
>
> On 11/12/2010 09:33 PM, Justin Pospical wrote:
> >  Why did OpenSolaris 2010.01 never come out? I have been checking
> >  genunix.org for the last ten months and nothing has changed.
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