Dear #openindiana #sun #sparc community. Fantastic news from Klaus, Hans and many others that have added SPARC support to OI for a lot pf machines. After years I do have an up2date #unix on my Sun Ultra 45. There is also some incredible work being done on #rust for SPARC. Mate useable via remote X session.
More details on https://dlc.openindiana.aurora-opencloud.org/SPARC/

Dear #openindiana #sun #sparc community. Fantastic news from Klaus, Hans and many others that have added SPARC support to OI for a lot pf machines. After years I do have an up2date #unix on my Sun Ultra 45. There is also some incredible work being done on #rust for SPARC. Mate useable via remote X session.
More details on https://dlc.openindiana.aurora-opencloud.org/SPARC/

SPARC & Alpha CPU Ports Still Seeing Activity In 2026 With Linux 7.0 - Phoronix

｢ New Linux kernel patches for Sun/Oracle SPARC and DEC Alpha are increasingly rare but for the most part still being maintained by the upstream Linux kernel. Merged this week already for Linux 7.0 are some maintenance work on those architectures plus the Motorola m68k that continues to routinely see new kernel activity too ｣

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-SPARC-Alpha-m68k

#linux #sparc #DECalpha #m68k #opensource

SPARC & Alpha CPU Ports Still Seeing Activity In 2026 With Linux 7.0 - Phoronix

｢ New Linux kernel patches for Sun/Oracle SPARC and DEC Alpha are increasingly rare but for the most part still being maintained by the upstream Linux kernel. Merged this week already for Linux 7.0 are some maintenance work on those architectures plus the Motorola m68k that continues to routinely see new kernel activity too ｣

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-SPARC-Alpha-m68k

#linux #sparc #DECalpha #m68k #opensource

Can a 2001 Sun SPARC server host a website in 2026?

Spoiler: Yes. Yes it can. 🔥

I got my Sun Netra X1 running OpenBSD + httpd serving actual web traffic.

Full writeup: https://rup12.net/posts/can-my-sparc-server-host-my-website/

#homelab #SPARC #retro #selfhosted #OpenBSD #Cloudflare #vintagecomputing #sysadmin #Sun

Can a 2001 Sun SPARC server host a website in 2026?

Spoiler: Yes. Yes it can. 🔥

I got my Sun Netra X1 running OpenBSD + httpd serving actual web traffic.

Full writeup: https://rup12.net/posts/can-my-sparc-server-host-my-website/

#homelab #SPARC #retro #selfhosted #OpenBSD #Cloudflare #vintagecomputing #sysadmin #Sun

@dillo 3.2.0 runs reasonably fast on a 25 years old SPARC station.

#dillo #sparc #retrocomputing

Thanks to #SPARC ( @sparc) for this new "Guide for Authors Complying with U.S. Federal Agency Public Access and Publisher Policies."
https://sparcopen.org/our-work/guide-for-authors-complying-with-policies/

Bottom line: Compliance with the US federal #OpenAccess policies is free of charge. Publishers who charge fed-funded authors a fee to make their work OA are charging to publish in their journals, not charging to comply with fed policy. You can publish elsewhere and avoid those fees.

#APCs #Funders #OAintheUSA #USA

Here is some literal new shiny.

Our SPARC tokamak's donut-shaped vacuum vessel will hold a superhot plasma, the machine's fusion fuel. Here's how we got the first half of that vessel to our HQ in Devens, Massachusetts. This was a design, engineering, fabrication, and transportation feat.

#FusionEnergy #Electricity #Science #Logistics #SPARC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvruKRhy5aE

Using a SPARCbook to play DOOM

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6zlzAFV0Jg0

#sparcbook #doom #retrogaming #retrocomputing #sparc

@vinishor great post, one of my last projects for #Sparc is to prepare a minimal Solaris setup for them. I was booting them over the network (“boot net” from the ok prompt) and using Jumpstart to automatically install Solaris on them.

#OpenFirmware is an intersection system on its own, you can build your own from the source from https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware

Thanks @simondassow for boosting this!

Alright, I give up. Dear Fediverse #retrocomputing folks, I've been looking for a SPARCstation IPX or IPC for quite some time; anyone around who'd be willing to sell one? Preferably within Europe (I've found one offer on eBay, but it would be from the US and I don't have any confidence in overseas shipping right now.) RT for reach, please 🤞

P.S. I'd be even happier about a SPARCstation IPC or SLC, but those are literal unobtanium 😭

#sun #sparc

Telescope [0] is an emacs/w3m-inspired browser for the "small internet"
that supports Gemini, Gopher and Finger. Written in C, with a privsep design in mind.

Telescope is now available on pkgsrc (below you can see it running on SPARC). With a few patches [1], it builds and runs fine on Solaris too.

Thanks @op@bsd.network, @thomasadam@bsd.network, and others for contributing to this project.

[0] https://telescope-browser.org/
[1] https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/tree/trunk/net/telescope/patches

#gemini #smolweb #pkgsrc #solaris #netbsd #sparc

Telescope [0] is an emacs/w3m-inspired browser for the "small internet"
that supports Gemini, Gopher and Finger. Written in C, with a privsep design in mind.

Telescope is now available on pkgsrc (below you can see it running on SPARC). With a few patches [1], it builds and runs fine on Solaris too.

Thanks @op@bsd.network, @thomasadam@bsd.network, and others for contributing to this project.

[0] https://telescope-browser.org/
[1] https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/tree/trunk/net/telescope/patches

#gemini #smolweb #pkgsrc #solaris #netbsd #sparc

Is it #suntember again?

Just got a fresh Tribblix installation on SPARCv9 (Sun Netra X1).
Thanks @ptribble@illumos.cafe for keeping this up.

~ $ uname -a
SunOS tribblix 5.11 tribblix-m32 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 illumos

#illumos #tribblix #sparc #sunmicrosystems

Is it #suntember again?

Just got a fresh Tribblix installation on SPARCv9 (Sun Netra X1).
Thanks @ptribble@illumos.cafe for keeping this up.

~ $ uname -a
SunOS tribblix 5.11 tribblix-m32 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 illumos

#illumos #tribblix #sparc #sunmicrosystems

#storytime ...so during pandemic (late 2020), I found a local Gumtree ad for somebody giving away some SPARC hardware and some software that came with it (boxed bundle of Solaris 2.5.1 server with extra stuff I recall). The guy who was giving it way had more stuff but I don't drive so I lugged what I could from Wolli Creek all the way home. It wasn't a typical SparcStation 10 so I had to look it up and after going down an interesting rabbit hole I believe it to be a locally sold clone/variant known as a 'PizzaPAC'.

Now, this rabbit hole involved looking up the vendor, Graphics Computer Systems, who are no longer around and ending up at the pages of a fellow named Dr Carlo Kopp of Monash University. He has a trove of stuff about the history of Australian involvement in the SPARC ecosystem that I had no idea about! The system I have is dated mid-1995 so they must have been around for a few years, are there any Aussies out there who might have any knowledge or additional insight about them? Were there many of these systems sold? Heck, does anyone outside of Australia know about them? I've not done much with it, apart from checking for signs of life, I was told one drive was broken and probably needs its NVRAM battery replaced.

Here's some photos that I took not long after bringing it home (please don't mind the mess and... the Linux ;))

Here's the page if anyone's interested: https://users.monash.edu/~ckopp/hardware.html

#sparc #australia #ancienthistory

Little addition to the #introduction: in terms of #sparc hardware I acquired an Ultra 5 a couple decades back from a fellow forum user of a Silicon Graphics-based forum I used to frequent (which was interesting as I didn't think would be any in my neck of the woods in outer suburban Sydney, Australia) but it got scrapped during a move. I've since bought an Ultra 10 that I hoped to make use of, it's a 440 MHz model with 256 MB and currently has no drives. Apart from drives I'll try to get the full 1 GB and probably needs a new battery. But before this purchase, I was given another system...

#storytime ...so during pandemic (late 2020), I found a local Gumtree ad for somebody giving away some SPARC hardware and some software that came with it (boxed bundle of Solaris 2.5.1 server with extra stuff I recall). The guy who was giving it way had more stuff but I don't drive so I lugged what I could from Wolli Creek all the way home. It wasn't a typical SparcStation 10 so I had to look it up and after going down an interesting rabbit hole I believe it to be a locally sold clone/variant known as a 'PizzaPAC'.

Now, this rabbit hole involved looking up the vendor, Graphics Computer Systems, who are no longer around and ending up at the pages of a fellow named Dr Carlo Kopp of Monash University. He has a trove of stuff about the history of Australian involvement in the SPARC ecosystem that I had no idea about! The system I have is dated mid-1995 so they must have been around for a few years, are there any Aussies out there who might have any knowledge or additional insight about them? Were there many of these systems sold? Heck, does anyone outside of Australia know about them? I've not done much with it, apart from checking for signs of life, I was told one drive was broken and probably needs its NVRAM battery replaced.

Here's some photos that I took not long after bringing it home (please don't mind the mess and... the Linux ;))

Here's the page if anyone's interested: https://users.monash.edu/~ckopp/hardware.html

#sparc #australia #ancienthistory