@ezio Nah if you want an OS that lasted forever, kind of hate it but Solaris 10 it is, heck it's even still in extended support. 2005 to Present Day; Present Time.
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@xianc78 @ezio @lanodan I mean in the sense of something that had major R&D effort put into it and directly attempted to compete with/wrest the crown from Linux and FreeBSD, HP-UX was a member of the walking dead before I was born.
@lanodan >we might as well say Sun+Linux (NFS, ZFS, OpenOffice, ATK, NIS/nsswitch/PAM, SunAudio, Java, …).
That's a lot of software that I don't use, so GNU/Linux fits much better, but you can say GNU+Sun+Linux if you must.
That's a lot of software that I don't use, so GNU/Linux fits much better, but you can say GNU+Sun+Linux if you must.
@Suiseiseki If you use GNU you have NFS bits (sunrpc in glibc) and nsswitch, you probably also have PAM.
@lanodan Yes, I don't doubt that there is implemented support for protocols and authentication mechanisms which happened to be developed at some stage by Sun, but I'm fairly confident that Sun didn't write much, if any of the software I use, considering that the software Sun released was usually released under the CDDLv1 license, which is intentionally incompatible with the GPLv2 (as Sun wanted to prevent that kind of freedom - thankfully they mostly failed).
