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As a former SUN sysadmin/netadmin (from SunOS 4.1.4 days), I vaguely remember the Solaris releases after 2.5.1, maybe to another re-version/branding called Solaris 7, maybe? And then not paying any attention after Oracle absorbed it. I was honestly surprised enough by this headline to click TFA, simply because I did not think Solaris even existed anymore.

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>I was honestly surprised enough by this headline to click TFA, simply because I did not think Solaris even existed anymore.

Oracle would never give up the opportunity to continue milking customers until they're comletely dry.

They did kill all future releases and blew up the SPARC roadmap. They also fired everyone working on new features and releases but kept enough of a skeleton crew to charge legacy customers outrageous support fees.

But for all practical intents and purposes, it's dead. One guy releasing things like "ls -sh now actually shows human readable output" being highlighted as a new feature kind of tells you everything you need to know.

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