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That's right, I definitely had the ordeal of freeing Solaris in mind when I was writing the comment. Honestly something of a minor miracle it even happened. (also I'm pretty sure all the closed stuff got purged out of illumos?, not even using Sun compilers now, it's all gcc/binutils)

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> That's right, I definitely had the ordeal of freeing Solaris in mind when I was writing the comment. Honestly something of a minor miracle it even happened.

Good to keep the successes in mind:)

> also I'm pretty sure all the closed stuff got purged out of illumos?, not even using Sun compilers now, it's all gcc/binutils

https://illumos.org/docs/developers/build/#getting-the-close... seems to say there's still some blobs in there, and gcc is a patched version. That said, yes, AIUI it's gotten better.

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