Don’t get in bed with Oracle.Ģ> Linux has copied, borrowed or stolen everything interesting from Solaris.ģ> There’s no cheap, fun hardware to run it on. The only growth job will be recapping SPARC hardware as supplies peter out. Enough Solaris experts have been minted between 19 to last the industry until the last SPARC server sputters out. I have no idea who this is supposed to be for.ġ> Solaris is a career dead end. Posted in News, Software Hacks Tagged solaris, sun, unix Post navigation Maybe this will help those folks still on Solaris 9. In 2017, we thought we’d seen the end of Solaris, but apparently not. We are sure we won’t have to prompt you to tell us why not. Will you install Solaris? If so, tell us why. Of course, if you have an FPGA SPARC system, this might be interesting too, but we have no idea how much other stuff you need to implement to be able to benefit from Solaris. We aren’t sure how far back the hardware this will support will go, but this could be just what you need to breathe new life into that eBay pizza box from Sun you’ve had in the basement. On the other hand, if you have an old SPARC machine - this could be big news. On the other hand, since you can virtualize a machine to spin up, it might be worth a little time to install it. Solaris has been an iffy proposition since Oracle acquired Sun, but Oracle announced last month that you can download and use Solaris 11.4 CBE free for non-production use.ĭo you care? If you ever wanted to run “real” Unix this is an option although, honestly, so is Free BSD and it probably has better community support. Apollo and Sun were big names and Sun’s version was Solaris. There was a time when “real” engineering workstations ran Linux Unix.
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