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Spec out a car. Go through the options and in the summary page it says:

"Your Model Y Production is expected to begin late next year"

spankweaselon “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”

Yeah, this has been a SUPER week let me tell you....

spankweaselon “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”

that the Solaris code is closed source and I can't point you at a github repo to show you all the cool things in Solaris.

spankweaselon Farewell, Solaris

Kernel zones also work on SPARC.

Edit: forgive the terse reply - on mobile

spankweaselon Farewell, Solaris

Yes. No.

Maybe.

:-|

spankweaselon Farewell, Solaris

I'm not terribly familiar with the ZFS/DTrace side of things but Solaris 11.2 added Kernel Zones [1] and Solaris 11.3 added more features [2].

We have Unified Archives as a way to create either a golden image of a system (all configuration and other host-specific data) or a "clone" image (the software payload minus host-specific data) which can be used to install metal, LDOMs, kernel zones, or branded zones and allow P2P, V2V, P2V, or V2P. [3]

We've had Boot Environments since 11.0 [4] which allows me infinite flexibility to upgrade or even try out random things. If things go south, I can roll back to a safe BE in 30 seconds with no issue.

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E37629/gnzfn.html

[2] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54847/virt.html#sc...

[3] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E38524/index.html

[4] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E21801/index.html

spankweaselon Farewell, Solaris

> ... most of the recent innovations in Solaris's core technologies (DTrace, ZFS, Zones, etc) have all happened in illumos.

As a core Solaris dev at Oracle, I can tell you that's not true. I just can't prove it to you. :-(