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

[Kai Windle]

On 5 September 2017 at 12:37, Udo Grabowski (IMK) <udo.grabowski at kit.edu>
wrote:

> 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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Doesn't have to be Linux, you could go the BSD route. Personally, I'm
hoping the BSD projects get some love from the Solaris engineers should
this come to pass.