Re: Solaris alltogether needs to die
I have some good news for you, then: Solaris has been effectively dead since 2017. For those late to the party or confused by the language used in the article: Solaris is a proprietary operating system owned by Oracle. OpenSolaris was an open source licensed series of releases of most of the Solaris code by Sun; open and collaborative development was intended but never really took off, and these releases stopped altogether when Oracle bought the company in 2010. At that point, Oracle effectively made a proprietary fork of OpenSolaris they continued to develop and offer as Solaris, while the open source OS was renamed illumos; open Oracle-free development of that OS continues to this day, and that's what this article is about. There are no forks (nor sporks) of OpenSolaris because OpenSolaris doesn't exist. illumos is the trunk and Oracle have a proprietary hard fork; other open forks like Tribblix also exist. illumos development today includes all the kinds of work you'd expect in an actively developed OS: support for new hardware (and yes, deprecation of support for the no longer useful), new standards, bug fixes, new features, workarounds for broken hardware, etc.
You can still buy Solaris, and Oracle have promised to continue supporting it for many more years, but they're not investing in much new development. El Reg has covered this extensively; you can learn more about this state of affairs at https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/18/solaris_12_disappears_from_oracles_roadmap/ and much more recently https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/15/solaris_support_changes/.
Most of the technologies you mention haven't been relevant during illumos's existence: LVM, journaling filesystems, and the need for disk slicing/partitioning were effectively replaced by ZFS with S10u2 in 2006, around the same time as the first OpenSolaris release. OpenSolaris is long gone and Solaris is going, but illumos is very much alive!
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