Yes!
The Sun Ray server is set up successfully and the Sun Ray 2 thin client will automatically log in to the Sun V240 server.
#sunmicrosystems #solaris #solaris10 #sunos #sunray

@tubetime it's pre-#Y2K compliant and AFAIK #SunOS that low doesn't even support #ZFS...

@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.”

“The case of the 500-mile email” https://bit.ly/3OrT7H8

#sunos #bug #funnybug #500miles

@stefano First contact with actual Unix was in '91 - online; I had access to account on one of .uni servers, which run #Sun #SunOS. I had to jump from #VMS student account to privileged professors one, then access X.25, go to internet gateway and you are on tcp/ip. Just jump to .uni, login, and voilà - SunOS (on another continent!)

Then I had some exposure to Ultrix, but local .edu VMS was far more interesting :D

Then around year 2K I started to realize that I can build Linux server with a lot of functionality of very expensive Apple Server for about $0 cost. My choice, at the time was Mandrake.

Then, a few years later, I discovered FreeBSD (6) and it's my firewall, router, nas, desktop (my personal desktop is #FreeBSD 13.2-STABLE / #KDE) or server for any purpose - OS of choice for any role.

@DianeBruce @jcamos @stefano I keep thinking it would be fun to have an #illumos / #sunos oriented server, but I hardly imagine there’d be many users. But maybe there are more #mnx & #oxide fans than I imagine.
But we’ve all got to follow the BSD communities since that’s were a bunch of the exciting ZFS, Bhyve &c work is happening

@pkgsrcchanges #SunOS doesn't exist anymore!!!!

Probably one of my most expensive system when new. Proper hardware this. #sunmicrosystems #sun2 #m68k #68010 #sunos

@ball It should definitely fit in reasonable memory sized #VAXen, say 16MB. The kernel can be stripped back and the ramdisk needs just enough to prompt for source and target devices, plus gzip - so much less than the current #sysinst based images. Something akin to the old #SunOS miniroot boot tape.

As it happens #NetBSD/ #amiga still has a miniroot install option - you partition with #AmigaOS native tools, write the miniroot to what will be the swap partition, then boot into it to complete.

Relive the Glory Days of Sun Workstations https://hackaday.com/2023/04/15/relive-the-glory-days-of-sun-workstations/ #SunMicrosystems #Retrocomputing #retrocomputing #solaris #sparc #SunOS #QEMM

Relive the Glory Days of Sun Workstations - When the IBM PC first came out, it was little more than a toy. The serious people ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/04/15/relive-the-glory-days-of-sun-workstations/ #sunmicrosystems #retrocomputing #solaris #sparc #sunos #qemm

@yeti @downey

Find points all.

But let's not conflate. "Free" only ever referred to #Berkeley UNIX - not AT&T, not #SunOS, #Solaris, #SCO UNIX, or Microsoft Xenix. GNU tools, certainly, yes, and Linux... well of course, #GNU GPL2-only license.

I personally don't mean specifically #Linux when I say #UNIX, but Linux is one of the Unices and I include as part of that OS family - just like #MINIX, #Pick, and a few others that may or may not be free in some form.

I hope that helps! 🙂

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@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
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I know #vi, and all the other command line tools. But I still ask myself why I need them in 2023. I am not a techie, not a nerd and I dont want to be a unix admin. I want to use the machine. Not make it a hobby. I was a #unix sysadmin in the 90s, #HPUX, #AIX, Interactive Unix, Motiv, X-Windows, Looking Glass, #SunOS, #Solaris, but then, thanks God, #NextStep.
Getting back to Pop!OS. They explain why hibernation is not setup by default. But give a very good, excellent explanation how to do it

In the '90s I worked on big chip design projects, and would create these big test suites for part of my chip's functionality which would've taken about 100years (literally) to run on one machine, but i could farm out the tasks to process in parallel on all the machines of my co-workers when they went home and get it done in 10 or 12 hrs instead. It created a sense that idle processor is a wasted opportunity.

Could hashtag that with #verilog #vhdl #sunOS I suppose

最終還是手癢，忍不住安裝了...

#solaris #sunos

@tschak What version of SunOS are you running on the emulated SPARC5, and how did you get it set up? I've been trying to get some kind of emulated #SunOS/#Solaris setup going but keep running into issues.

@ramsey @michaelwitwicki Mine is quite short actually:

1976 edit on #MTS mainframe OS
1980 #vi on #Unix v7 and later #BSD Unix
1984 #emacs on BSD Unix
1989 some #SunOS graphical editor (cannot remember which)
1992 vi on Linux
1997 #eclipse (short period: hated it) on Linux
1997 emacs on Linux
2019 emacs + #evil on Linux

plus some non-memorable ones on other random operating systems (MS-DOS, RSTS/E, Atari ST, ...).

Dans le temps on imprimait les manuels, on note la références à bell labs. #sunos

@Strange_Bundle #SunOS ?