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I don't know that Oracle Solaris supports the Linux ABI. The revival of Linux ABI support in zones (containers) is a SmartOS (and illumos) thing, and we've diverged significantly from Solaris at this point.



Aw, looks like it was Oracle Solaris 10 only.

(Is there a good generic word for Oracle Solaris + SmartOS + Illumos + etc.?)


SmartOS is really just a distribution of illumos; so are OmniOS, OpenIndiana, etc. We are all very similar as we push and pull from our common source base.

When Oracle took the source closed again, they essentially forked their own private product. They have diverged significantly enough from everybody else that it's not really helpful to include them in the same family anymore.

tl,dr: we just call it all "illumos" now.




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