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I’ll never forgive them for destroying Sun
They tried to wreck Android also.
Google a few years later: Hold my beer.
Sun Solaris is where I really learned to use *nix. In college my department had a whole computer lab filled with Sun workstations. Definitely a more interesting place than all the standard windows clusters.
I have never used this Oracle Solaris business.