Things I like about FreeBSD:
"You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish."
is still listed as a bug in the tunefs man page on FreeBSD 14.3
I first saw it more that 30 years ago on SunOS that was BSD based at the time.
Things I like about FreeBSD:
"You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish."
is still listed as a bug in the tunefs man page on FreeBSD 14.3
I first saw it more that 30 years ago on SunOS that was BSD based at the time.
@ytc1 @DenOfEarth @aka_pugs I know.
And espechally in #ScientificComputing a lot of researchers loved working with #SunMicrosystems and when #Oracle took over that relationship got sour'd instantly due to #Oracle #CEO #LarryEllison...
-> https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114682503920794745
One of the big successes of #Sun was that they basically declared a unilateral "ceasefire" in terms of #IP & #Patents re: #OpenSource. Whereas Oracle didn't seem willing to honour that.
Obviously #Linux with it's #GPLv2only-Kernel and most of it's Userland could not get 'closed-sourced' like #OpenSolaris which instantly got stomped out by Oracle as they wanted to sqeeze #Solaris for profits and milk their clients in typical Oracle fashion...
Now granted, I do know someone who for most of their life made their money dealing with the intricacies of setting up #postfix, #sendmail and #courier #MailServers on Solaris and if I ask said person about that they give me a kilometer stare, so OFC like a #SysV - #Unix systems Solaris and #SunOS really are one of the reasons #WindowsNT won the "#WorkstationWar" and why - if anyone - #Apple won the last "#UnixWar"...
Zero respect for the elderly in the #Debian archive: "Using -Wall will create some warnings on #SunOS that can be ignored" https://sources.debian.org/src/cal/4.1-1/src/makefile.unx/#L15
#tribblix got some cool zone management with #zap
Just playing around with #bhyve and #netbsd
NetBSD feels fast.
one line to deploy a zone #1337hax0r
I’m messing around with a SS20 and SunOS 4.1.4. But I’m recalling there was a DiskSuite for it. ODM is something that rings a bell, but I might be mistaken. Does anyone have a copy of the tape or CD?
#sunos
OK, We did it! FractalKit 1.0, a big collection of SVR4-packaged modern tools and libraries for #Solaris 10. Untar, then run `pfexec pkgadd -d . all` in the directory with the pkg files in, you know how this works. Sorry no SMF manifests, we're bloody tired. Get the bits: https://axiom-networks.org/fractalKit.tar.gz
#solaris #sunos #sunmicrosystems #retrocomputing #unix @SolarisDiaspora
building the following #Solaris #sunos packages to distract ourself from the hellshow going on today @SolarisDiaspora :
FSYSopenssh_SERVER99-9_9p1-sparcv9-sunos_5_10-openssl
FSYSopenssl33-3_3_2-sparcv9-sunos_5_10-withcerts
FSYSgnu_GMP63-6_3_0-sparcv9-sunos_5_10-default
FSYSgnu_MPC13-1_3_1-sparcv9-sunos_5_10-default
FSYSgnu_MPFR42-4_2_1-sparcv9-sunos_5_10-default
FSYSgnu_GCC-9_5_0-sparcv9-sunos_5_10-noisl
一方で目を #NetBSD 方面に向けてみるとどうなっているのかよくわからない。NetBSD 8.0からのaudio (前記gihyo.jp記事中の図の表現では #Linux における #ALSA コアに相当すると見ている) が (20世紀コンピュータで動かすにはパフォーマンス面で) タコ過ぎてisaki audio2に書き直されたことが窺えるが、ソフトウェアはどのAPIをサポートすればいいのか判らない。NetBSDのサウンドが #SunOS 互換の/dev/audioのサポートから歴史が始まったことを考えると、audio2はOpen Sound System互換のインターフェースを持っており、そこにALSA APIなり #PulseAudio なりを繋げればいいのだろうか?
響け!...ない NetBSD @ OSC2017広島 (ページ3) http://www.pastel-flower.jp/~isaki/NetBSD/osc17hi/page6.html
NetBSD + pkgsrc における oss, alsa, pulseaudio についてのメモ - tsutsuiの作業記録置き場 https://tsutsui.hatenablog.com/entry/ar1166538
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.
I have a Solaris machine with this kernel:
SunOS xxxdb01 5.11 11.4.69.170.2 sun4v sparc sun4v non-virtualized
When trying to load a kernel module, it complains about "R_SPARC_WDISP30: symbol not found: yield".
I've looked everywhere but there is no documentation on this symbol being deprecated or not available for others.
Does anybody have an idea where to look?
"please, get her out of the city"
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)
DNS is so critical to the modern Internet, yet it's so often taken for granted. NCommander explores The Old Ways of life with UNIX without DNS.
Netscape, But It Doesn't Support DNS (ft. SunOS 4 and NIS) https://youtube.com/watch?v=72IngPgZQM4
#retrocomputing #retronetworking #internethistory #computerhistory #sunmicrosystems #sunos #solaris #unix #netscape #ncommander
So who would like to help porting the amiga-gcc toolchain to #solaris or #openindiana? 😅 Bebbo has done branches up to 13.2 sadly enough not for #SunOS Did someone gave it a try on *#BSD? https://github.com/bebbo/amiga-gcc/issues/347
@WindOfChange The best way to think of !# is as a backref in a regex. Realistically, you may use one or two of those in a complex command or pipeline to refer to previous arguments.
I use !# rarely and only because I have used history expansion for decades. Definitely much more useful when cut-and-paste was not available.
By the way, I am not entirely sure when !# came into Csh, it may have been a Sun addition. It definitely was in SunOS 3.2 by 1986.