You may want to look into Illumos and OpenIndiana. They are continuances of the OpenSolaris project and are actively maintained.
http://www.illumos.org/ http://www.openindiana.org/ On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 23:41, Mike Suchodolski <msuchodol...@msn.com> wrote: > I just found my way to this post.. I've been scratching my head as to why > update manager has been failing to find any updates and I downloaded the > latest "Oracle Solaris" to see if that would fix things.. only to find I > can't even register my solaris machine anymore.. :-( > > I'm a manager now.. been a developer, dba, and system admin.. Solaris has > been with me on and off for 30 years.. I've kept it at home so I could keep > my unix skills up.. Paying $1000 a year doesn't make any sense to me for home > use.. would it really kill them to just push security patches? > > It's truly sad what Oracle has done to Solaris.. I guess I'll look to Linux.. > I hear Ubuntu is pretty good.. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > -- " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Sterling, Virginia USA _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
