Why “Solaris” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
On the onboarding thing, Oracle Cloud didn't offer Solaris as an OS option last time I checked. And, of course, they never offered SPARC because abandoning it was one of the fir…
by rbanffy · Sep 22, 2026
There was Netscape support, but then there was that crisis when it seemed that IE would be the only viable web browser, the realization that the Netscape was too FUBAR to build…
by PaulHoule · Sep 22, 2026
> On linux for 15+ years and everytime I try to use mac or win, it is an ordeal. And ads. I've been using Linux since the a.out days and MacOS X since the PowerPC days, and I fi…
by throw0101a · Sep 22, 2026
I was working in a UK financial blue chip (FTSE 100/high street bank) from 1999 to 2008 where I got my main Sun exposure. I loved the Sun kit and Solaris. Touched everythin…
by eddie_catflap · Sep 22, 2026
> circa 2005 > I wasn't able to get Mozilla to build You must be misremembering something. Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox had always tier one support on Solaris. You had not…
by jjav · Sep 22, 2026
According to her Wikipedia page she wanted to go for Solaris and was against acquiring NeXT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Hancock#:~:text=was%20ag...
by praseodym · Sep 22, 2026
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