Do home hobby users have a future with Solaris?

[Kulin Remailer]

I am a home user who likes to run various Linux BSD and Solaris to try and
learn their features. It seems like Oracle is clamping down on us hobby
users who don't pay so is Solaris worth keeping? I love ZFS and having a
mirror system working for me without fake software raid or expensive
hardware raid. I have a nice webserver set up on my LAN from my Solaris
installation. Just wondering what people are thinking about home use of
Solaris. Does it have a future? How long can I keep my system alive with no
patches or updates. At this point it's fine but who knows.

[cjt]

Post by Kulin Remailer
I am a home user who likes to run various Linux BSD and Solaris to try and
learn their features. It seems like Oracle is clamping down on us hobby
users who don't pay so is Solaris worth keeping? I love ZFS and having a
mirror system working for me without fake software raid or expensive
hardware raid. I have a nice webserver set up on my LAN from my Solaris
installation. Just wondering what people are thinking about home use of
Solaris. Does it have a future? How long can I keep my system alive with no
patches or updates. At this point it's fine but who knows.

FWIW, I'm in a similar position. My guess is that Open Solaris is the
next step.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Post by Kulin Remailer
I am a home user who likes to run various Linux BSD and Solaris to try and
learn their features. It seems like Oracle is clamping down on us hobby
users who don't pay so is Solaris worth keeping? I love ZFS and having a
mirror system working for me without fake software raid or expensive
hardware raid. I have a nice webserver set up on my LAN from my Solaris
installation. Just wondering what people are thinking about home use of
Solaris. Does it have a future? How long can I keep my system alive with no
patches or updates. At this point it's fine but who knows.

The license most applicable in this case is the OTN license, which
is free, perpetual, and can be used for "developing, testing, prototyping
and demonstrating your applications". Patches aren't available, but the
download image has been updated for each new release (actually, so far,
before the download image for contract customers has been updated).

OTN=Oracle Technology Network
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/solaris/index.html

[Rthoreau]

Post by Andrew Gabriel
The license most applicable in this case is the OTN license, which
is free, perpetual, and can be used for "developing, testing, prototyping
and demonstrating your applications". Patches aren't available, but the
download image has been updated for each new release (actually, so far,
before the download image for contract customers has been updated).
OTN=Oracle Technology Networkhttp://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/solaris/index.html
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Andrew Gabriel
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My suggestion would be to watch openindiana and illumos once they get
a stable release you will have the ability to have patch updates and
not worry about Oracle and what it deems important.

http://wiki.openindiana.org:8080/display/oi/OpenIndiana+Wiki+Home

I would say keep an eye out for it and check back often say every six
to nine months, lots of people are looking for a replacement for
Opensolaris that is community driven.