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   Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd (koakuma@uwu.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 06:59:22 JST Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd

   It's very curious that bigname FOSS compilers that do have a Solaris port are dropping support for 11.3 and earlier versions

   I wonder why is that :cirnothinking:

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 07:02:55 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @koakuma Made me check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Solaris#Version_history and what the heck are those super-long support durations.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 07:07:26 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • LisPi
     @lispi314 @koakuma Could also just be some dependency/tool/… that's like "We've kept this workaround for ~10 years, we're tossing it away".
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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 07:07:28 JST LisPi

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     @koakuma Did Solaris do something silly with its licensing?