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    A little precipitatux is ok, but when the sysadmins clump and precipitate one should prepare for events.

    Of course Blue Skies are Desirable.

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    4 days ago

    I recently learned it is possible to run Solaris in Microsoft Azure

    I have to live with that information and now so do you

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      No? Unix is not a thing anymore. There are some rare edgecases with some older systems still running a variant like AIX or HP-UX but that is below 1%.

      80% of what we call “cloud” is Linux and ~65% of all Websites run on Linux. The rest is Windows and maybe 0.5% some variant of BSD.

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          Most webservers run Ubuntu and it is the default OS for the overwhelming amount of cloud providers. Some run Debian though. Most enterprise applications run Red Hat or CentOS.

          I never heard of OmniOS. Quick search says it is a distant descendant of OpenSolaris.

          Given how rare that was already used back in its time and how practically nullexistent the community is for it (compared to Linux) I can say with high confidence the users are limited to a few enthusiasts and hobbyists.

          Alpine is a special case and is indeed quite useful on VMs or IoT devices. I used it successful as base for a taped-together home automation server on a repurposed android phone.