Thread: Unleashed 1.0: a new Illumos distribution released
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Old 25th May 2020
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Originally Posted by Sensucht94 View Post
SPARC has become a second class citizen on Illumos ever since the demise of OpenSXCE (2013-2014). The leading commercial Illumos vendors Joyent, Nexenta and, up until 2018, Delphix, seemingly didn't want to invest into SPARC, being it tightly linked to Oracle; supporting old SPARC hardware probably just appeared nonsense. That said, SPARC support on Illumos for legacy Sun hardware is kept alive by few hobbyist projects: Tribblix (my illumos distribution of choice, really worth a try if you like either NetBSD or Slackware), v9os and DilOS
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