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by yjftsjthsd-h 895 days ago
Unfortunately, there are still some proprietary blobs:

https://illumos.org/docs/about/faq/#is-illumos-free-software...

https://illumos.org/docs/developers/build/#getting-the-close...

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For who is that unfortunate?
Anyone who cares about flexibility or quality? Those blobs can't be audited for bugs, can't get new features from the community, present a pain point for refactors, and I would expect impede porting to new architectures (though the existence of the ARM port makes me less sure of that point).