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@ytc1 @DenOfEarth @aka_pugs I know.

And espechally in #ScientificComputing a lot of researchers loved working with #SunMicrosystems and when #Oracle took over that relationship got sour'd instantly due to #Oracle #CEO #LarryEllison...

-> infosec.space/@kkarhan/1146825

One of the big successes of #Sun was that they basically declared a unilateral "ceasefire" in terms of #IP & #Patents re: #OpenSource. Whereas Oracle didn't seem willing to honour that.

  • Without that cooperative atmosphere we saw #OpenOffice devs literally forking off into @libreoffice and projects like #illumos and @openzfs scramble to save what was OpenSource'd and also rescue that.

Obviously #Linux with it's #GPLv2only-Kernel and most of it's Userland could not get 'closed-sourced' like #OpenSolaris which instantly got stomped out by Oracle as they wanted to sqeeze #Solaris for profits and milk their clients in typical Oracle fashion...

Now granted, I do know someone who for most of their life made their money dealing with the intricacies of setting up #postfix, #sendmail and #courier #MailServers on Solaris and if I ask said person about that they give me a kilometer stare, so OFC like a #SysV - #Unix systems Solaris and #SunOS really are one of the reasons #WindowsNT won the "#WorkstationWar" and why - if anyone - #Apple won the last "#UnixWar"...

  • Still I do am sad that I declined that #sysadmin position at a leading research center I'm not at liberty to name and I do know there's OFC still some critical infrastructure running even older Solaris servers...

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Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)@DenOfEarth@mas.to @aka_pugs@mastodon.social I know. Cade in point, #OpenSolaris did have avid users just below that range, and a lot of #ScientificComputing used it, as they previously used #IRIX. And #Sun being #OpenSourve-friendly was the right direction...

Woohoo new rust release! My favourite feature in this one is computation on floating point numbers now available at compile time! I'm very excited about the possibilities that this offers: for example, for some numerical algorithms that need specific numerical constants, we can now compute them at compile time instead of having to write their values in the source code.

blog.rust-lang.org/2024/10/17/

blog.rust-lang.orgAnnouncing Rust 1.82.0 | Rust BlogEmpowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
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@danibanez There's arewelearningyet.com/scientifi which tries to track scientific/numeric crates.

There's a slew of "arewe*yet" sites tracking development in other areas. Perhaps someone want to make an "arewehpcyet.com" to track HPC/math/science Rust projects? Or we just continue to use the /scientific-computing/ page of arewelearningyet.

Definitely a thing folks are interested in, but I don't know how coordinated the effort is.

www.arewelearningyet.comScientific ComputingSeveral crates have populated the scientific computing space, includinglinear algebra and matrix operations, numerical optimization, and more.
#HPC#Rust#MPI