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Been using Linux since the 0.98a kernel. Before that, I was using #SunOS, #NeXT and (probably) #AOS (university had a lab full of IBM RT PCs) UNIX derivatives. So, learning Linux was translating my existing knowledge and running the deltas through man pages and, especially #Usenet.

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Been using Linux since the 0.98a kernel. Before that, I was using #SunOS, #NeXT and (probably) #AOS (university had a lab full of IBM RT PCs) UNIX derivatives. So, learning Linux was translating my existing knowledge and running the deltas through man pages and, especially #Usenet.

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Been using Linux since the 0.98a kernel. Before that, I was using #SunOS, #NeXT and (probably) #AOS (university had a lab full of IBM RT PCs) UNIX derivatives. So, learning Linux was translating my existing knowledge and running the deltas through man pages and, especially #Usenet.

@[email protected]

Been using Linux since the 0.98a kernel. Before that, I was using #SunOS, #NeXT and (probably) #AOS (university had a lab full of IBM RT PCs) UNIX derivatives. So, learning Linux was translating my existing knowledge and running the deltas through man pages and, especially #Usenet.

@[email protected]

Been using Linux since the 0.98a kernel. Before that, I was using #SunOS, #NeXT and (probably) #AOS (university had a lab full of IBM RT PCs) UNIX derivatives. So, learning Linux was translating my existing knowledge and running the deltas through man pages and, especially #Usenet.

@jselea Thanks goes out to Jonathan for this (still quite relevant) tidbit. For those of us who spent a lot of time with Sun #Solaris up through Solaris 10 there's a lot to appreciate here.

Solaris has been parted out, but here is an Enterprise production scale incarnation that's worth a looksee and testdrive. It's really a shame that the Evil EllisonCo destroyed so much - just discarded it like trash, following aquisitions, and what they didn't toss out in the trash they dissappointed the developers so much that it spawned forks that exist to fill the vacuum to this day:

- MySQL ==> MariaDB
- OOo ==> LibreOffice (The Document Foundation)
- Sun Enterprise Servers - rebranded as Oracle boxes
- Sun Solaris 10 ==> OpenIndiana and others (OmniOS, for one)
- Sun VirtualBox - Oracle VirtualBox

So without dwelling on the past or further ado, let's follow Jonathan's tour, shall we?

#tallship #FOSS #SunOS #OmniOS #Hypervisor #NAS #ZFS
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RE: https://blogs.linux.pizza/api/posts/1l2sks829g

@jselea Thanks goes out to Jonathan for this (still quite relevant) tidbit. For those of us who spent a lot of time with Sun #Solaris up through Solaris 10 there's a lot to appreciate here.

Solaris has been parted out, but here is an Enterprise production scale incarnation that's worth a looksee and testdrive. It's really a shame that the Evil EllisonCo destroyed so much - just discarded it like trash, following aquisitions, and what they didn't toss out in the trash they dissappointed the developers so much that it spawned forks that exist to fill the vacuum to this day:

- MySQL ==> MariaDB
- OOo ==> LibreOffice (The Document Foundation)
- Sun Enterprise Servers - rebranded as Oracle boxes
- Sun Solaris 10 ==> OpenIndiana and others (OmniOS, for one)
- Sun VirtualBox - Oracle VirtualBox

So without dwelling on the past or further ado, let's follow Jonathan's tour, shall we?

#tallship #FOSS #SunOS #OmniOS #Hypervisor #NAS #ZFS
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RE: https://blogs.linux.pizza/api/posts/1l2sks829g

@jselea Thanks goes out to Jonathan for this (still quite relevant) tidbit. For those of us who spent a lot of time with Sun #Solaris up through Solaris 10 there's a lot to appreciate here.

Solaris has been parted out, but here is an Enterprise production scale incarnation that's worth a looksee and testdrive. It's really a shame that the Evil EllisonCo destroyed so much - just discarded it like trash, following aquisitions, and what they didn't toss out in the trash they dissappointed the developers so much that it spawned forks that exist to fill the vacuum to this day:

- MySQL ==> MariaDB
- OOo ==> LibreOffice (The Document Foundation)
- Sun Enterprise Servers - rebranded as Oracle boxes
- Sun Solaris 10 ==> OpenIndiana and others (OmniOS, for one)
- Sun VirtualBox - Oracle VirtualBox

So without dwelling on the past or further ado, let's follow Jonathan's tour, shall we?

#tallship #FOSS #SunOS #OmniOS #Hypervisor #NAS #ZFS
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RE: https://blogs.linux.pizza/api/posts/1l2sks829g

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Nice to see mfsBSD for FreeBSD. Pity it has taken this long though. OpenBSD has had it for years, I remember installing SUNOS with a MFS BSD as well. ;)

#FreeBSD #SunOS #Sun3 #OpenBSD

#osx nae mehr! I was actually wondering whatever happened to x windows and if I could run my imac as a mac mini monitor that way. #linux #sunos

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fvxecvdtoy5zjdw2bhin7uh4/post/3mkiupbgpmc2k

How many of you youngsters remember turning off the udp checksum to make SunOS NFS faster?

#SunOS #Sun #BSD #Unix

Reviving a Cursed Sun SPARCstation IPX

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/reviving-a-cursed-sun-sparcstation-ipx/

Reviving a Cursed Sun SPARCstation IPX

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/reviving-a-cursed-sun-sparcstation-ipx/

@occult @catsalad heh , I’m
That old. I mean my stack of of sparc5 pizza boxes get turned on every so often just for the mems

#unix #sunos #solaris #oldtimegeek #sparc

@occult @catsalad heh , I’m
That old. I mean my stack of of sparc5 pizza boxes get turned on every so often just for the mems

#unix #sunos #solaris #oldtimegeek #sparc

@occult @catsalad heh , I’m
That old. I mean my stack of of sparc5 pizza boxes get turned on every so often just for the mems

#unix #sunos #solaris #oldtimegeek #sparc

Someone did it ! A #sun3 clone https://github.com/54weasels/sun3_60
#sunos #sunmicrosystems #m68k #unix

Segmentation faults can be funny.

#SitcomsTaughtMe
#HashTagGames
#SunOS #TheITCrowd
#UNIX #Linux

Segmentation faults can be funny.

#SitcomsTaughtMe
#HashTagGames
#SunOS #TheITCrowd
#UNIX #Linux

Segmentation faults can be funny.

#SitcomsTaughtMe
#HashTagGames
#SunOS #TheITCrowd
#UNIX #Linux

Segmentation faults can be funny.

#SitcomsTaughtMe
#HashTagGames
#SunOS #TheITCrowd
#UNIX #Linux

@lproven tldr; they only madr it work by hacking an undocumented Windows interface

#Microsoft #Windows #hotmail #unix #sunos #Solaris

🎶 New blog post / it's one you can read / this Sun's Timekeeper is toast / so why don't we / cut a hole in it with a Dremel? 🎶

#sparc #sunos #sparcstation #retrocomputing #powertoolabuse

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/12/30/sparcstation-1-timekeeper-battery-fix-dremel.html

Cleaning and restoring this SUN SPARCstation 330 from 1989. They built these things like vaults. It’s perfectly clean on the inside but hasn’t been powered on in 30 years.

#unix_surrealism #SUNmicrosystems #UNIX #SunOS #Solaris #SPARC

Yes, the picture accompanying this post was just what I had handy, and was SunOS and not Solaris. To make up for it, here's the CDE Phone.
#SunOS #Solaris #CDE

Someone's old Sun SPARCstation IPX fan page I ran across today, randomly.

I love old pages like this.

https://williambader.com/museum/sunipx/sunipx.html

#SUN #SPARC #SPARCstation #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #oldwebsites #derelictpages #workstations #Solaris #SunOS

Ok, here's the blog post!

If you've wanted to party like it's 1994 and experience life on planet #Unix _before_ Solaris, why not try a bit of #RetroComputing and try #SunOS 4 on an emulated #SPARCstation 5? https://apintandaparma.club/cos/falling-down-a-rabbit-hole-of-nostalgia-episode-1-sunos-4

Alright, so I fell down the #SunOS 4 #emulation rabbit hole, piecing together a bunch of instructions and finding something that worked. See up and down from this post for more info.

I wonder if it's similarly possible to emulate an old DECstation running Ultrix?

#RetroComputing #Unix #90s https://aus.social/@cos/115597055734516482

New Friend in #SantaCruz ...

I juggle (learned because SUN Servers came with three sand-balls and in the #SunOS manual, there was a chapter on how to juggle while you were waiting for the OS to install) and so Brah invited me to Tuesday Juggling at Capitola Beach!

I think I'd very much like that.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WPqILGgalcE

Seems tme is getting some new love.
https://github.com/phabrics/nme
#sun2 #sun3 #sunmicrosystems #sunos #emulator #unix

Before moving to greener (and higher-paying 🤑) pastures, one of my two big "technical assistant" projects for #Comcast #Cellular was upgrading the engineers' Sun #Unix workstations from the #BSD-based #SunOS 4 to #SVR4-based SunOS 5 (#Solaris 2), and from #NIS / #YellowPages to NIS+.

In hindsight, it was a bad idea to make both changes at once, but I was a kid entranced by novelty and not yet very considerate of my users during the inevitable downtimes. (3/6)

@pantyhosewimp I was still in college at #Drexel and had a #Mac LC on my dorm room desk.

I could dial into one of the school’s #SunOS systems, though. RIP DUNX1: https://drexel.edu/it/help/a-z/dunx1/

@qlp

This is great! I didn't know these films existed. I left Sun in 1989 and became a reseller for some of the software mentioned here. At Sun, I had worked in the write/draw/paint project where we modified the xview libraries to display Open Look on the older window system, just as OpenWindows was being rolled out. It helped sell the suite, but marketing didn't like that we stole the thunder of X11/NeWs with this so called "Leif Look", and they banned it for future use.

#OpenLook #OpenWindows #SunOS

@keithzg @kpeace @aral My sweet summer child, even in the pre-1.0 betas #Netscape was on #Windows, #Mac, and a panoply of #Unix platforms (#DEC #Tru64 (then called OSF/1 AXP), #HPUX, #SGI #IRIX, IBM #AIX, #SunOS, Sun #Solaris, #BSDI, and #Linux): http://home.mcom.com/archives/

It wasn’t “ported.”

@keithzg @kpeace @aral My sweet summer child, even in the pre-1.0 betas #Netscape was on #Windows, #Mac, and a panoply of #Unix platforms (#DEC #Tru64 (then called OSF/1 AXP), #HPUX, #SGI #IRIX, IBM #AIX, #SunOS, Sun #Solaris, #BSDI, and #Linux): http://home.mcom.com/archives/

It wasn’t “ported.”

@keithzg @kpeace @aral My sweet summer child, even in the pre-1.0 betas #Netscape was on #Windows, #Mac, and a panoply of #Unix platforms (#DEC #Tru64 (then called OSF/1 AXP), #HPUX, #SGI #IRIX, IBM #AIX, #SunOS, Sun #Solaris, #BSDI, and #Linux): http://home.mcom.com/archives/

It wasn’t “ported.”

@keithzg @kpeace @aral My sweet summer child, even in the pre-1.0 betas #Netscape was on #Windows, #Mac, and a panoply of #Unix platforms (#DEC #Tru64 (then called OSF/1 AXP), #HPUX, #SGI #IRIX, IBM #AIX, #SunOS, Sun #Solaris, #BSDI, and #Linux): http://home.mcom.com/archives/

It wasn’t “ported.”

@keithzg @kpeace @aral My sweet summer child, even in the pre-1.0 betas #Netscape was on #Windows, #Mac, and a panoply of #Unix platforms (#DEC #Tru64 (then called OSF/1 AXP), #HPUX, #SGI #IRIX, IBM #AIX, #SunOS, Sun #Solaris, #BSDI, and #Linux): http://home.mcom.com/archives/

It wasn’t “ported.”

@PeterSommerlad @derkern Well you've got me beat by about 5 years! I've been using #Debian as my primary desktop OS since about 1995. Some brief stints with BSDs in there but not much. Occasionally used #SunOS, #BSDi, and #MacOS at work during that timeframe, but the majority of my work hours during that time have also been under #Debian.

I also run it on my #RaspberryPi units and on my servers.

I hadn't heard of Apollo/Siemens - had to look it up. Interesting!

@PeterSommerlad @derkern Well you've got me beat by about 5 years! I've been using #Debian as my primary desktop OS since about 1995. Some brief stints with BSDs in there but not much. Occasionally used #SunOS, #BSDi, and #MacOS at work during that timeframe, but the majority of my work hours during that time have also been under #Debian.

I also run it on my #RaspberryPi units and on my servers.

I hadn't heard of Apollo/Siemens - had to look it up. Interesting!

@PeterSommerlad @derkern Well you've got me beat by about 5 years! I've been using #Debian as my primary desktop OS since about 1995. Some brief stints with BSDs in there but not much. Occasionally used #SunOS, #BSDi, and #MacOS at work during that timeframe, but the majority of my work hours during that time have also been under #Debian.

I also run it on my #RaspberryPi units and on my servers.

I hadn't heard of Apollo/Siemens - had to look it up. Interesting!

@PeterSommerlad @derkern Well you've got me beat by about 5 years! I've been using #Debian as my primary desktop OS since about 1995. Some brief stints with BSDs in there but not much. Occasionally used #SunOS, #BSDi, and #MacOS at work during that timeframe, but the majority of my work hours during that time have also been under #Debian.

I also run it on my #RaspberryPi units and on my servers.

I hadn't heard of Apollo/Siemens - had to look it up. Interesting!

@swagpussc (...continued)
Often forgotten by people is the period in between. The people who cloned Linux and the (GNU) "shell" around it often worked from samizdat doco about 1970s Unix.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, there were a whole bunch of commercial #Unix flavours: #Xenix, HP/UX, #AIX, #SunOS, #Ultrix, OSF/1, AT&T System 3, AT&T System 5, ...

#Illumos, which came from #Solaris, which came from SunOS, is actually still around.

https://illumos.org

#SVR3 #SVR5
(continued...)

#introduction

#hello people. Ståle from Norway. I've been doing tactical and strategic #infosec and #irt in #HigherED for the last seven years. It all started with a bunch of diskettes and c.o.l.a. in 1993, and since then I've worked as a sysadmin. Mostly unix-es, but also Windows. This includes project management, #monitoring, #architecture, designing an #operations center and touching a bunch of technologies over the years. I still code a little #shell and #python. Been using #cfengine and #tivoli with a smile.

A memorable moment still is opening 7 xterms and compiling X11R6 for #sunos #solaris #hp-ux #ultrix #irix #linux #digitalunix and managing the configuration and security of tons of servers and clients centrally. This must have been 2000 or so.

These days I tend to like logging and #siem frameworks like #elk, teaching users and management how to make smart choices, general config management and hardening, IAM-stuff and the essential symbiosis between #sysadmin stuff and infosec stuff. #isms. #policies. #architecture.

I also like #photography #lego #rpg #larp #cooking #politics #society #emacs #languages #puns. A lot nicer than the picture. He/Him.

The third and final #SPARCStation from storage. Another #SS20 with EPROM and two Seagate Barracuda SCSI HDD, CDROM, and an updated, third-party Ross CPU module.

I think the remaining Sun/Sparc stuff are peripherals.

Next steps: Solaris OS installation/upgrade, development environment!

#SunMicrosystems #VintageComputing #RetroComputing #RISC #Sparc #Solaris #SunOS