Damus
vermaden · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqnjcjhejdpr8xh6ugjn20rhccvetpucpfaa4px5upz5j67l40u0hq478u0e I also see it that way (and seen it like that back then). AIX and HP-UX are really ...
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@nprofile1q... When I started my #Linux journey (in a predominantly #Windows shop) it was the tail end of #UNIX systems. My brief experience with Solaris 10 began with a #SPARCstation 20 in 2006ish and a handful of Sun Fire V880 and E4xxx servers in 2015. I am aware those machines were ancient by the time I used them

Solaris is the one #tech I genuinely feel like I missed out on. Not Oracle but Sun.

I checked out #OpenSolaris and its descendants over the years. I liked it but the one thing that really held me back from migrating to it (on the desktop) was the small package set. Unfortunately.
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vermaden · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqnjcjhejdpr8xh6ugjn20rhccvetpucpfaa4px5upz5j67l40u0hq478u0e I have similar feeling about OpenSolaris packages - when I tried it on Dell D630 laptop the experience was OK - but most packages that I needed then were missing.