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 OpenSXCE disappeared - how to resurrect it 

Hey Mark, I read a surprising comment about OpenSXCE ""software (linux distribution) article of unclear notability, lacking independent references"".

OpenSXCE was never a Linux distribution. I suspect I may have contributed to the wikipedia article in the past, at some level, and I was getting ready to re-contribute to the article again (since a new release was pending) - when I found OpenSXCE deleted.

OpenSXCE is not Linux based, but is based upon forked Open Sourced Solaris source code released by Sun Microsystems, but re-closed by Oracle. Linux and OpenSXCE have disjoint licensing criteria, meaning the kernel software is illegal to mix. The OpenSXCE's roots are pre-Linux, with decades of history. There was a rename & rebranding from MarTux to OpenSXCE, which may have caused some confusion.

Notability: There was a variety of OpenSolaris splinter distributions, one splinter is the basis of one of Gartner Magic Quadrant for cloud providers. OpenSXCE is the only current Open Source splinter that runs under SPARC architecture. SPARC architecture is a unique open CPU architecture supported by multiple vendors, currently the fastest CPU architecture on the market today, running the fastest non-clustered machines in the market today, and recently powered the fastest super-computer in the world for nearly 12 months running. OpenSXCE marks one of 3 currently supported OS's (Oracle Solaris, Fujitsu Linux, open source OpenSXCE) which runs under SPARC systems. OpenSXCE is the only Open Source OS today, running under this Open Architecture, which is not supported a by commercial vendor. OpenSXCE releases had been reviewed by multiple technical web sites in the past.

I have been in the computing profession for over a quarter century, an expert in some areas, a novice in others. While I do not contribute to this Open Source project, I am very aware of it's unique value in Open Source, open CPU Architectures and High-End systems. I don't have a lot of spare time, but make some when something notable appears. I am not an expert in Wikipedia markup, but have contributed for some time. I really don't have the time to be re-creating articles of significance, but it is significant enough that I am willing to re-create this page.

What is the process to resurrected the old page, or would I [unfortunately] need to re-create a new page?   "