[OpenIndiana-discuss] So is Solaris officially supported till 2034?

[Jim Klimov]

On September 5, 2017 6:14:30 PM GMT+02:00, Gabriele Bulfon <gbulfon at sonicle.com> wrote:
>...you picked up my concerns...and we're already thinking about
>possible new paths for our XStreamOS...
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>Oggetto: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] So is Solaris officially supported
>till 2034?
>On 05/09/2017 12:45, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
>The real concern is...in the short or long period, how much support for
>Solaris kernels can we expect from third parties such VMware?
>They may completely remove the "Oracle Solaris 11 64bit" from the list
>of supported VMs.
>This may happen elsewhere, as happened recently at MongoDB.
>This may hurt the illumos ecosystem in the short/long term.
>What do you think?
>Sonicle S.r.l.
>I think we will this see very quickly, all third-party vendors
>will cease Solaris SPARC and x86 support on short notice, especially
>NVIDIA, which will practically end the possibility to use any illumos
>derivative on the desktop on a midterm timescale. Since we as a
>research institute depend on third-party support this will more
>sooner than later force us to move to Linux, regardless if we want
>this or not. So reality will terminate OI, only specialized use in
>the storage domain may survive some time, but also there driver
>support will sooner or later completely evaporate.
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So we need a klx (kernel-lx) project to run linux drivers? ;)

Do vendors support BSDs well?...

Jim

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