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whalesalad
45 days ago
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A new Oracle Solaris Common Build Environment (CBE...
Either way, SPARC and the entire family seem to be entirely dead in the grand scheme of things. I don't know why anyone would develop for this platform.
claudex
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Solaris and Illumos are available on x86
nubinetwork
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But illumos doesn't run on sparc... granted I don't have the hardware, but if I did, it would be nice if I could use illumos.
shrubble
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Tribblix does, which is based on illumos - I have a V210 I installed it on, not too long ago...
iberator
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Nope.
Oracle SPARC S7, T8, and Fujitsu SPARC M12 still supported
whalesalad
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supported sure but its an ancient dying platform. sparc was discontinued almost 10 years ago.
sys_64738
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Oracle generated $3b in revenue from these systems last year.
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