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		fungi on May 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NeXT Computer > and Solaris, um... http://openindiana.org/ and http://illumos.org/ are actually pretty frikken awesome.

mdellabitta on May 4, 2013 [–]

Does anybody really use them as workstation operating systems? Also, they don't run anything desktop-oriented that you can't run on Linux.

I love some of the lower-level tech that came out of Solaris, but NeXt was about desktop user experience rather than server stuff.

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