[dorknexus]

Oracle announced it is pulling the plug on OpenSolaris, the only freely available commercial-grade UNIX.
Goodbye OpenSolaris

[no2pencil]

I would figure the BSD versions of Unix to be commercial grade. I've worked for & with a ton of companies that run FreeBSD &/or NetBSD. I've never known a single company (or individual) to run OpenSolaris.

[KYA]

Oracle seems to be firing on all cylinders.

[no2pencil]

Hey, Lawyers gotta eat, right?

[Tom9729]

It might have been "commercial grade", but it's userland consisted of a combination of common Linux GNU stuff and old Sun stuff (yucky). The "Java Desktop System" was just an old version of Gnome.

Binary compatibility with old SunOS stuff was interesting but probably not that useful for anyone today. Proprietary Nvidia support out of the box was cool but lacking (no CUDA). Package management wasn't too bad.

ZFS time slider was very cool.

Basically it wasn't much of a workstation OS. Will be sad to see it go, but I have to question if it ever really was alive.

Edit: No support for suspend/hibernate on laptops also.

This post has been edited by Tom9729: 16 August 2010 - 06:32 AM

[gibson.nathan]

pour one out for our fallen homie, opensolaris.

[g-weebens]

No, it isn't dead. There are active projects based on Open Solaris.

[ButchDean]

I was looking forward to this!