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A new Oracle Solaris Common Build Environment (CBE) release

41 pointsby naveslast Saturday at 6:56 PM25 commentsview on HN

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dsr_today at 2:49 PM

I suppose they are looking for people who had not previously stuck their hand in the lawnmower.

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RobotToastertoday at 5:36 PM

I think I'd rather use hpux than deal with oracle

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shrubbletoday at 3:31 PM

Illumos/OpenSolaris etc are great and install about as easily as FreeBSD, on desktop and server systems with Ethernet. Other stuff like WiFi etc is not as well supported.

It’s still my favorite OS, if it fits what I need it for.

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jordemorttoday at 3:10 PM

"We're about to take a bath on these datacenters, do we have any other viable lines of business left?"

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whalesaladtoday at 2:51 PM

I wonder where Solaris is still actively being deployed and used.

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