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nine_k
6 hours ago
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whalesalad
6 hours ago
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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.
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claudex
6 hours ago
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Solaris and Illumos are available on x86
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nubinetwork
3 hours ago
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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.
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shrubble
34 minutes ago
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Tribblix does, which is based on illumos - I have a V210 I installed it on, not too long ago...
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iberator
3 hours ago
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Nope.
Oracle SPARC S7, T8, and Fujitsu SPARC M12 still supported
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whalesalad
1 hours ago
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supported sure but its an ancient dying platform. sparc was discontinued almost 10 years ago.
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