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WTF is illumos? • An open source descendant of OpenSolaris • ...which itself was a branch of Solaris Nevada • ...which was the name of the release after Solaris 10 • ...and was open but is now closed • ...and is itself a descendant of Solaris 2.x • ...but it can all be called “SunOS 5.x” • ...but not “SunOS 4.x” — thatʼs different • Letʼs start at (or rather, near) the beginning...
SunOS: A peopleʼs history • In the early 1990s, after a painful transition to Solaris, much of the SunOS 4.x engineering talent had left • Problems compounded by the adoption of an immature SCM, the Network Software Environment (NSE) • The engineers revolted: Larry McVoy developed a much simpler variant of NSE called NSElite (ancestor to git) • Using NSElite (and later, TeamWare), Roger Faulkner, Tim Marsland, Joe Kowalski and Jeff Bonwick led a sufficiently parallelized development effort to produce Solaris 2.3, “the first version that worked” • ...but with Solaris 2.4, management took over day-today operations of the release, and quality slipped again
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