[rescue] Whither Solaris 10

[Mauricio Tavares]

On Apr 28, 2015 6:03 PM, "Jerry Kemp" <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.us> wrote:
>
> Solaris 10 went GA/was released in 2005.  A decade later it is still
being actively supported by Oracle, and I believe that someone posted an
EOL of 2018.
>
> My only question is will Solaris 10 win any awards for the longest
actively supported version of an operating system?
>
      I thought XP still had that honor for the time being.

> Has any other version been stuck on on version anywhere as long as
Solaris 10 without the owning company going TU?
>
> Jerry
>
>
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> On 04/27/15 06:36 PM, Carl R. Friend wrote:
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>>     Good evening Rescuers,
>>
>>     Have Oracle stopped development on Solaris 10?  I took a look the
>> other evening and it seems the last version that's available is from
>> 2013 -- hardly current.  Is it dead?
>>
>>     I've not looked at the HCL pages for Solaris 11 -- mainly because
>> I'd be frightened off due to the hardware upgrades (and power, and
>> cooling, and ...) involved in joining that crowd.
>>
>>     I'm doing Solaris packaging work with the Icinga group, and maintain
>> a solid base of Solaris here (anywhere from 2.5.1 to 2.10U11) and am
>> wondering if it's time to give it up as a dead cause...
>>
>>     Cheers!
>>
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