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@wezm I love old screenshots. Nearly 25 years ago I was building NetBSD 1.5Y from my Solaris 8 desktop at the BBC. Fun times.

#solaris #netbsd #evilwm

Screenshot of a Solaris 8 desktop running various terminals, chat programs, a very early Firefox, and compiling NetBSD.

Wesley Moore

@wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social · 19 hours ago

As I continue to trawl through old backups please enjoy this screenshot of a NetBSD system dated Feb 2005. Not sure what I was up to, or what the system running it was.

#NetBSD #twm

A twm desktop with several xterms, xload, and xclock.

Jonathan Perkin

@jperkin@federate.me.uk replied · 17 hours ago

@wezm I love old screenshots. Nearly 25 years ago I was building NetBSD 1.5Y from my Solaris 8 desktop at the BBC. Fun times.

#solaris #netbsd #evilwm

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Alan Coopersmith

@alanc@hachyderm.io · yesterday

I answered a question on the #tuhs mailing list with a little history on userspace page 0 in #SunOS and #Solaris :
https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-January/033124.html

[TUHS] history of virtual address space

Alan Coopersmith

@alanc@hachyderm.io · yesterday

I answered a question on the #tuhs mailing list with a little history on userspace page 0 in #SunOS and #Solaris :
https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-January/033124.html

[TUHS] history of virtual address space

Ra (Freya) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩

@freya@chaosfem.tw · last week

oh wow, #Solaris 10 will be *completely* out of support in 11 months. I wonder if at that point, someone will publish the 2026-12 Critical Patch Update archive somewhere?

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occult

@occult@vox.ominous.net · 3 weeks ago

A 1985 Computer Chronicles segment about the brand new company SUN Microsystems.

Featuring Bill Joy, the segment goes on to express doubts that UNIX will ever catch on in the business world.

"UNIX will be important if it can deliver applications that people want to run."

Nothing he says is wrong, but in 1985 I can only imagine what it felt like.

#UNIX #SUNMicrosystems #SUN #Solaris

GIF

occult

@occult@vox.ominous.net · 3 weeks ago

A 1985 Computer Chronicles segment about the brand new company SUN Microsystems.

Featuring Bill Joy, the segment goes on to express doubts that UNIX will ever catch on in the business world.

"UNIX will be important if it can deliver applications that people want to run."

Nothing he says is wrong, but in 1985 I can only imagine what it felt like.

#UNIX #SUNMicrosystems #SUN #Solaris

GIF

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jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · 7 months ago

🌞 Using Sun Ray thin clients in 2025 • @iris

https://catstret.ch/202506/sun-ray-shenanigans/

#sunray #thinclients #illumos #solaris #retrocomputing

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jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · 4 months ago

Solaris 10 was a total revelation back in the day. Kids these days will never witness something like that.

Cynicism has killed most of genuine curiosity.

#suntember #solaris #opensolaris

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jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · 3 months ago

｢ Solaris 2.1 for x86, also known as SunOS 5.1, was Sun’s first entry into the PC market (technically it was SunSoft, a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, who released Solaris). However, it wasn’t Sun’s first x86 operating system. In the late 1980s, Sun sold 386i workstations based on Intel 386 processors. The 386i workstations were not PC compatible and ran SunOS 4.0, a BSD UNIX derivative with many custom Sun enhancements ｣

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/pc-unix-history/solaris-2-1-for-x86/

#solaris #unix #retrocomputing

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jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · 2 months ago

OpenIndiana 25.06 | A GhostBSD Users perspective 👀 / Robonuggie

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5q0PgivuYV4

#openindiana #opensolaris #solaris

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vermaden

@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe · last month

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#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe · last month

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#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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Darren Moffat

@darrenmoffat@mastodon.social · last month

Protecting Audit trail files from tampering/removal even by root: https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/protecting-oracle-solaris-audit-trail-files-from-tampering-removal-even-by-root #solaris #zfs

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@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe · last month

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#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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HP van Braam

@hp@mastodon.tmm.cx · last month

Well my OTHER #sun ultra 10 just died. I now have two machines that will power on, but the power LED stays off, and no display ever comes.

Before that started to happen it complained about the IDPROM contents being wrong, so I followed a guide to re-create the contents and allow my ultra 10 to boot. The "power led won't come on" problem started then.

Does anyone know how to get this unstuck? I need at least one to work for my #sunpci #DOScember video!

#retrocomputing #unix #solaris