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@KairosTemenos 54yo Staff #Infosec Engineer who learned on #SunOS / #Solaris machines back in the early 90s.

We can talk. :)

Building a Unix live ISO from scratch is pure awesomeness 🥰

​My Unix development machine had zero GPU compatibility: a mountain of boot errors, GUI dead, straight to CLI 💀

​Driven completely blind in a storm of hardware failures, the Unix kernel remained an absolute rock, letting me build the OS anyway 👊🏻

Just tasted the legendary Unix stability 🛠️💪🏻

​ #SysAdmin #OpenSource #DevOps #UNIX #illumos #SunOS #OpenIndiana #Solaris #OpenSolaris

Just discovered it's totally possible to build custom live ISOs based on OpenIndiana/illumos/SunOS.

​I've just built my first one: it runs like a primordial internal combustion engine for now, but it's the right path!

​The goal? A minimalist CLI toolbox for Unix (an OS I'm absolutely in love with) sysadmins. It's like a wrench of a very weird size, but it works. 🛠️

​#illumos #OpenIndiana #SunOS #Solaris #Unix #SysAdmin #CLI #illumos

Playing around with OpenIndiana/illumos, a Unix descendant with real System V lineage going back to the original AT&T code 🫠
Not something I use daily, just curious to poke at it and learn a bit 🫠
Setting up a small custom flavor on top for fun, called BashCoreU ☺️

#Unix #illumos #OpenIndiana #SunOS

Ooh. I've also got a Sun PC-NFS 5.1 box to get rid of..
#sun #sunos

This is so damn cool, cloning the #Sun3/60, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpl1q2uuks4

#sunmicrosystems #m68k #sunos #netbsd

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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.

@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

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

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

@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