Comment by vlovich123

Comment by vlovich123 9 days ago

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The spiritual successor for Sun machines is Oxide (lots of ex-Sun folks). And Sun got acquired by Oracle so it’s still technically around on the software side via virtual box and Java.

snovymgodym 9 days ago

That's the point though.

What's left of Sun is basically a startup founded by a few ex-employees, some open-source software, and the rest of their IP being milked by Larry Ellison.

  • zabzonk 9 days ago

    Neither SunOS or Solaris were open source, or based on open source.

    • snovymgodym 8 days ago

      I'm not talking about SunOS or Solaris. I'm talking about Java, dtrace, OpenZFS, and a various other random bits of Sun legacy still floating around in modern open-source systems.

    • mmooss 8 days ago

      Wasn't SunOS essentially a flavor or distro of Unix?

markus_zhang 9 days ago

I love Oxide's podcast. I checked its career page a few times but they are only hiring for field sales.