<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>I work for Joyent (<a href="http://joyent.com">joyent.com</a>) now, which employs a number of devs that work on illumos (<a href="http://illumos.org">illumos.org</a>). We also provide cloud infrastructure. Would it help if we offered one or more instances (VMs) on which to run buildbot slaves (and on which volunteers for bug fixing could hack)? I know a lot of people in the illumos community would be quite sad to have it dropped as a core Python plat.<br><br></div>Guido,<br></div>Yes you are correct that Oracle owns the Solaris brand.<br><br>tl;dr history if you care:<br>- sunos -> Solaris<br>- Sun open sources Solaris, called OpenSolaris (2005)<br>- Oracle acquires Sun and closes Solaris (Aug 2010). Shortly after, the community forks OpenSolaris and calls it illumos (Sep 2010)<br></div>- OpenIndiana is a distro of illumos (somewhat similar to how Ubuntu is a distro of Linux). Other distros are SmartOS (the one Joyent works on), and OmniOS.<br></div>- Oracle continues work on Solaris, releasing "Solaris 11 Express".<br><br></div><div>I've no real numbers of usage of illumos vs Solaris 11 vs others. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div>Trent<br><br></div>p.s. I hear that Jesus is also in contact with some of the illumos-devs on IRC (and perhaps email). I hope we can help there.<br></div>