How To Install Applications On Solaris 10 End Of Life

The Observation Deck The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris. As had been rumored for a while, Oracle effectively killed Solaris on Friday. When I first saw this, I had assumed that this was merely a deep cut, but in talking to Solaris engineers still at Oracle, it is clearly much more than that. It is a cut so deep as to be fatal the core Solaris engineering organization lost on the order of 9. Of note, among the engineers I have spoken with, I heard two things repeatedly this is the end and from those who managed to survive Friday I wish I had been laid off. Gone is any of the optimism however tepid that I have heard over the years and embarrassed apologies for Oracles behavior have been replaced with dismay about the clumsiness, ineptitude and callousness with which this final cut was handled. In particular, that employees who had given their careers to the company were told of their termination via a pre recorded call robo RIFd in the words of one employee is both despicable and cowardly. What is FurMark FurMark is an OpenGLbased GPU stress test utility also called GPU burnin test. It makes it possible to push the GPU to the max in order to test. To their credit, the engineers affected saw themselves as Sun to the end they stayed to solve hard, interesting problems and out of allegiance to one another not out of any loyalty to the broader Oracle. Oracle didnt deserve them and now it doesnt have them they have been liberated, if in a depraved act of corporate violence. Assuming that this is indeed the end of Solaris and it certainly looks that way, it offers a time for reflection. Certainly, the demise of Solaris is at one level not surprising, but on the other hand, its very suddenness highlights the degree to which proprietary software can suffer by the vicissitudes of corporate capriciousness. Vulnerable to executive whims, shareholder demands, and a fickle public, organizations can simply change direction by fiat. List of Deprecated Platforms and Applications. If a thirdparty vendor discontinues support for a platform, that platform, as well as any products associated with it. RjZurU/UJtDprXvYrI/AAAAAAAAAJc/qamDWNk1Lcg/s1600/10.png' alt='How To Install Applications On Solaris 10 End Of Life' title='How To Install Applications On Solaris 10 End Of Life' />And because in the words of the late, great Roger Faulkner it is easier to destroy than to create, these changes in direction can have lasting effect when they mean stopping or even suspending work on a project. Indeed, any engineer in any domain with sufficient longevity will have one or many stories of exciting projects being cancelled by foolhardy and myopic management. Solaris-2.4-running-dungeon.jpg' alt='How To Install Applications On Solaris 10 End Of Life' title='How To Install Applications On Solaris 10 End Of Life' />For software, though, these cancellations can be particularly gutting because in the proprietary world, anyway so many of the details of software are carefully hidden from the users of the product and much of the innovation of a cancelled software project will likely die with the project, living only in the oral tradition of the engineers who knew it. Worse, in the long run to paraphrase Keynes proprietary software projects are all dead. However ubiquitous at their height, this lonely fate awaits all proprietary software. There is, of course, another way and befitting its idiosyncratic life and death, Solaris shows us this path too software can be open source. In stark contrast to proprietary software, open source does not cannot, even die. Yes, it can be disused or rusty or fusty, but as long as anyone is interested in it at all, it lives and breathes. Even should the interest wane to nothing, open source software survives still its life as machine may be suspended, but it becomes as literature, waiting to be discovered by a future generation. That is, while proprietary software can die in an instant, open source software perpetually endures by its nature and thrives by the strength of its communities. Just as the existence of proprietary software can be surprisingly brittle, open source communities can be crazily robust they can survive neglect, derision, dissent even sabotage. In this regard, I speak from experience from when Solaris was open sourced in 2. Open. Solaris community survived all of these things. Choi Games Truc Xanh Pikachu. By the time Oracle bought Sun five years later in 2. And, it turns out, illumos was born at exactly the right moment shortly after illumos was announced, Oracle in what remains to me a singularly loathsome and cowardly act silently re proprietarized Solaris on August 1. We in illumos were indisputably on our own, and while many outsiders gave us no chance of survival, we ourselves had reason for confidence after all, open source communities are robust because they are often united not only by circumstance, but by values, and in our case, we as a community never lost our belief in ZFS, Zones, DTrace and myriad other technologies like MDB, FMA and Crossbow. Indeed, since 2. 01. Open. ZFS, but we have also advanced our core technologies considerably, while still maintaining highest standards of quality. Learning some of the mistakes of Open. Solaris, we have a model that allows for downstream innovation, experimentation and differentiation. For example, Joyents Smart. OS has always been focused on our need for a cloud hypervisor causing us to develop big features like hardware virtualization and Linux binary compatibility, and it is now at the heart of a massive buildout for Samsung who acquired Joyent a little over a year ago. For us at Joyent, the SolarisillumosSmart. OS saga has been formative in that we have seen both the ill effects of proprietary software and the amazing resilience of open source software and it very much informed our decision to open source our entire stack in 2. Judging merely by its tombstone, the life of Solaris can be viewed as tragic born out of wedlock between Sun and AT T and dying at the hands of a remorseless corporate sociopath a quarter century later. And even that may be overstating its longevity Solaris may not have been truly born until it was made open source, and certainly to me, anyway it died the moment it was again made proprietary. But in that shorter life, Solaris achieved the singular immortality for its revolutionary technologies.