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0 pointsyjftsjthsd-h4y ago0 comments

> (And I'll just fork a copy and use that; it's not as though the SPARC ecosystem is a moving target.)

This was actually one of my first questions on seeing the announcement - is Tribblix SPARC going to continue, or will this upstream change eventually EOL that as well?

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ptribble4y ago

Tribblix SPARC will continue. While you lose any new features that go into illumos upstream, at least you don't keep getting broken by changes going into illumos upstream.

(This isn't a commitment for all time, naturally. At some point the SPARC hardware I have will stop working. But it turns out to be solidly built and impressively reliable.)

yjftsjthsd-hOP4y ago

So for the foreseeable future you intend to just freeze SPARC Tribblix on the last Illumos to support SPARC? I suppose it should stay ABI compatible with other components ~forever, so that shouldn't even hold back other pieces of the system.

ptribble4y ago

Pretty much it, yeah. If there's anything useful upstream then it will get pulled in, and there's a still a lot of worthwhile cleanup of SPARC, but the kernel will be essentially frozen.

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0 pointsyjftsjthsd-h4y ago0 comments

> (And I'll just fork a copy and use that; it's not as though the SPARC ecosystem is a moving target.)

This was actually one of my first questions on seeing the announcement - is Tribblix SPARC going to continue, or will this upstream change eventually EOL that as well?

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ptribble4y ago

Tribblix SPARC will continue. While you lose any new features that go into illumos upstream, at least you don't keep getting broken by changes going into illumos upstream.

(This isn't a commitment for all time, naturally. At some point the SPARC hardware I have will stop working. But it turns out to be solidly built and impressively reliable.)

yjftsjthsd-hOP4y ago

ptribble4y ago

Pretty much it, yeah. If there's anything useful upstream then it will get pulled in, and there's a still a lot of worthwhile cleanup of SPARC, but the kernel will be essentially frozen.

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