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posted by martyb on Tuesday May 09 2017, @10:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the three++ dept.

The OpenIndiana wiki announces the operating system's Hipster 2017.04 snapshot, which supports USB 3.0 and includes

[...] GTK3 applications. Several Gnome 2 applications, which don't have Mate analogs, were updated to Gnome 3 versions.

OpenIndiana is based on Illumos, which is in turn based on OpenSolaris, the open source version of Solaris.

Does anyone still use Solaris these days?


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Tuesday May 09 2017, @11:09PM

    It's pretty much Solaris, with a Grub and GNU dev environment/toolchain.

    What's more, I run XFCE rather than OpenWindows [wikipedia.org] (which always sucked anyway)

    I did have several SPARCStations and a Solaris/X86 box for quite a while, but I got rid of them a while ago.

    Given that ZFS [wikipedia.org] now runs on Linux/*BSD and Zones [wikipedia.org] functionality can be replicated on other platforms, Solaris doesn't offer much.

    Unless you have some legacy hardware or code that's Solaris specific, there really isn't any reason to run Solaris (or OpenIndiana). I do so because I cut my teeth on Sun boxen (going back to the SunOS 4.0.x days), so OpenIndiana has some nostalgia value. Other than that, unless you have old Sun hardware lying around, the Linux and *BSD ecosystems are much more vibrant.

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