@[email protected] to [email protected] • edit-24 days agoWhat is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without?message-square320fedilinkarrow-up1502arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1495arrow-down1message-squareWhat is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without?@[email protected] to [email protected] • edit-24 days agomessage-square320fedilinkfile-text
Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.
minus-squareDominusOfMegadeuslinkfedilink12•4 days agoI feel like if Sun had come out on top (instead of fucking Oracle), the tech space might be a better place
minus-square@khannielinkEnglish6•4 days agoIf they’d released the x86 version of Solaris when it became clear that SPARC couldn’t keep up with Intel and AMD that could have been a possibility. Solaris was such an amazing OS.
minus-square@khannielinkEnglish3•4 days agoThat’s my understanding. It’s a long time ago but I believe they bought out Sun when they were facing bankruptcy.
I feel like if Sun had come out on top (instead of fucking Oracle), the tech space might be a better place
If they’d released the x86 version of Solaris when it became clear that SPARC couldn’t keep up with Intel and AMD that could have been a possibility.
Solaris was such an amazing OS.
Does oracle own the Solaris code now?
That’s my understanding. It’s a long time ago but I believe they bought out Sun when they were facing bankruptcy.