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It's crazy that we are over 15 years removed from when illumos officially started as a project, shortly after Oracle took over Sun and killed off OpenSolaris.
I was on the group call that made the announcement in 2010 and I'm impressed that illumos is still going strong.
Fun fact, it is the only open-source OS that is proper UNIX (SVR4), not Unix-like, like the BSDs or Linux.
I like Solaris(well, illumos/Tribblix etc) but when I install something I install a version that includes the LX (Linux) zones (container) functionality, so that I can quickly install anything prepackaged for Linux use. Sadly there are some things that take more work to get installed on Solaris.
I really enjoy working with illumos on my home server. I run SmartOS[1] and it's zone management is great and the webui they've been working on is pretty cool too.
remember when macOS had time machine but opensolaris really had time machine?
It was the future OS most fails to understand. The ZFS/IPS integration was the first modern step aside of declarative distros. A thing 99% of people still fails to understand refusing the concept of storage system/package system/installer interdependence.
Zones, DTrace was the rest.
My understanding is that this is part of Oxide's secret sauce.
Is there much traction with this elsewhere? I worked at SunOS and Solaris shops in the past, and remember telling my boss that this new Linux thing was going places and she dismissed it as nonsense.
About ten years ago I worked on adding support for illumos/opensolaris/openindiana to some stuff and even back then all things solaris seemed basically dead already (despite the open* projects just being a few years old then). Curious to see these come up from time to time, and even more curious to see them still releasing new versions. These always seemed simultaneously ahead and behind the times.
I still have my OpenSolaris CD from Sun https://files.catbox.moe/f94s9j.png
Looking back the 2000s almost feels like an alternate reality