Following the recent request on a similar topic:
if somebody could help to get ILOM/BIOS firmware for SunFire X2270, or direct me where I could download it without a support contract, I'd really appreciate that.
#Solaris #SolarisDiaspora #SunMicrosystems

Tonight (06/18/25 at 6pm EDT) we're going to work on creating some animated, nested instances in Solaris. USD can be tricky for a lot of people (me included!), and hopefully we'll clear up some misunderstandings.

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#houdini #sidefx #solaris

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@ramin_hal9001 except that's yet another package and yet another config file and thus requires #Guix to support the target system. Which may not be the case (i.e. ancient versions of #Solaris or some #BSD-based distro or some weird embedded linux device...

• So whilst that may be attractive to some (and I don't deny the fact that it has merits) I don't think that me publicly hating #YAML and working on a #GNUfree toybox+musl/linux distro is the target audience of it.

I mean if someone wants to port guix to #OS1337 they are happily invited to do so and I'll gladly accept that contribution, but it's currently not on my agenda...

@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.

• Without that cooperative atmosphere we saw #OpenOffice devs literally forking off into @libreoffice and projects like #illumos and @openzfs scramble to save what was OpenSource'd and also rescue 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...

• Which is sad because #competition breeds #innovation and a lot of stuff like #Zones in Solaris really were at their time really forcing #KVM, #bhyve and #BSDjails to up their game for good.

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"...

• Still I do am sad that I declined that #sysadmin position at a leading research center I'm not at liberty to name and I do know there's OFC still some critical infrastructure running even older Solaris servers...

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1/114689337148586939

#Wine 10.10 (dev) has been released (#WineHQ / #WineIsNotAnEmulator / #Linux / #macOS / #BSD / #Solaris / #PlayOnLinux / #PlayOnMac / #CodeWeavers) https://winehq.org/

20 years ago today, I joined in the #OpenSolaris opening day blog circus by posting why the X11 & Desktop sources were not yet posted to opensolaris.org but would be coming later:
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/opening-day

and about what new desktop features were in the first #Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) release that went out at the same time:
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/solaris-express-changes-for-desktop-users

OTD 2005: #SunMicrosystems open-sources #Solaris. 20 years!

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/sun-begins-open-source-solaris-era/

#Introduction

Hello, my name is Christoff.

I live in Illinois, USA, outside the St. Louis area. Below I'll talk about my technology and creative interests, and a bit about me personally. I'm going to hashtag the heck out of this post.

the whole "deadbeef" thing is the magic number from #Solaris for freed memory. I simply chose .monster TLD because it seemed cool and I like "extended" TLDs.

#Technology

I have been using a OpenBSD, #NetBSD, or #GNU/#Linux since the late 1990s as a primary workstation. I used macOS from 2020 to 2025, switching to the #KDE neon distro (KDE plasma is amazing and KDE isn't bloated anymore, yay!).

My current career is as a #pentester where I break into web applications, IP networks, mobile applications (especially #Android), and people to their face or over the phone; code #malware; write documentation; and enjoy helping clients in a third party contractor/consultant role. I started that job change in 2020, when I earned the #OSCP certification at the height of "#infosec twitter" when I did well there.

Previously I worked for about 20 years as a senior-level programmer, and systems, infrastructure, and database administrator. Burnout was very real and I was extremely bored/unfulfilled.

Now that programming and sysadmin stuff isn't my career, I find I enjoy programming and tinkering again.

I am a big fan of NetBSD and always have been. I am not a huge fan of GNU/Linux but I do appreciate things "just working", even if it is full of closed-source binary blobs and other garbage. It was fun in the 1990s.

I know many programming languages but have been paid professionally to code in #C, #Perl, #Python, #PHP, #Java, and #Groovy for big commercial entities like eBay, small companies, and the US government.

I've maintained 99.99% uptime for a 60MM+ platform for years, including failover and backups (that were regularly tested... you test your failover and backups, right?!).

I always wanted to be a cool C and low-level programmer, which I thought for the longest time was being a kernel programmer, but now I know that isn't the life for me.

Emacs is something I've enjoyed since the beginning and I still can't code a #Lisp well. I'd love to be a cool #lisper with #CommonLisp, but haven't gotten there yet. I'm on the #c64 and #embedded #retrocomputing train now.

#Creative

For creative stuff, I aim to do a lot but tend to hop around as interests take me. I could use some discipline there (someday?).

For #music, I have an electric #bass (Fender Jazz) and electric #guitar. I love #jambands (#GratefulDead, #Phish, #Goose) and that's the type of music I like to play along to.

For #art, I like #acrylic and #watercolor painting. I rarely do it, but think about it a lot and love it when I do it. I don't have any skill or talent, but that's not the point. It's for me and no one else.

For #computing, I am venturing into #C64 #demoscene programming and exploration. Not only was I too poor to get one when I was little but I sorta forgot about it over time. The desire to do cool things in a restricted environment where folks are playing in the sandbox, too, is very exciting and attractive to me. I don't know how to code the #Commodore64 stuff yet, but will! Learning the assembly language (I have zero desire to code in BASIC again and I can just code assembly).

I like #chess, but gave up playing a long time ago. I enjoy following the sport and ChessNetwork (Jerry) is someone I'm a big fan of and got to meet once at a chess club!

#Personal

I live with my soulmate and our five amazing cats in a small town outside St. Louis living a quiet life. Just doing our jobs, taking care of daily life stuff, and enjoying each other and life as much as we can. Ups and downs of life chaos, like anyone else, but we're doing alright!

We enjoy exploring places within driving distance and there are a lot of places to go to.

Currently, we're really into playing two-player games together and just started collecting #boardgames. Right now, we're really digging #SkyTeam, #RoyalGameOfUr, #ForrestShuffle, #SentinelsOfTheMultiverse, and this magnet game I don't know the name of. We have #SpiritIsland and #ArcNova to unwrap and learn. We tried really really hard to get into #ArkhamHorrorTheCardGame but the rules are too complicated and confusing, where it felt like we were doing the wrong thing all the time.

I am 46. I grew up loving Star Wars, Star Trek, #SciFi, reading novels non-stop, horror, and watching movies. I collect classic SciFi books from 1960s and 1970s.

I had two IQ tests as a kid and scored in the genius level. I killed a lot of brain cells from a youth finding myself, grateful for it, but thankfully made it out well. Other than being overweight, my physicals are straight down the middle perfect line (yay, genetics!) and my brain is still in top condition!

I would perhaps describe myself as an extremely curious person, that loves #puzzles and #mysteries, #exploration, figuring out #HumanBehavior like I'm an alien studying humans (I'm good at it, it turns out), that has a keen eye for detail, remembering random little things, and a good listener. I'm fairly adaptable and fluid in most things, which works well for me. My brain works differently than a lot of people, and while frustrating a lot of the time for things I don't understand fully, it is me and serves me well in niches.

Making people laugh makes me happy. I am a #hacker and #tinkerer.

I follow NCAA football #Buckeyes, professional #tennis, and #NFL #ClevelandBrowns. I enjoy it with other people and my other half, but not a huge fan for it solo.

#pinned

Just realised I now have an extra sparc compatible pci graphics card. And some quite nicely specced headlese sparc servers. Wonder if they could be combined to make a workstation? #ultrasparc #sunmicrosystems #solaris

@WiteWulf

I remember the days when Java was the thing of the future that everyone was surely going to be using instead of all of that C and C++. We were going to have safe sandboxed Java in our WWW browsers, to do away with ActiveX et al..

But even in those days I said that #Oracle was where software goes to die. Clearly Oracle is milking #Java to death.

Which is a bit of a shame.

In the meantime, Microsoft is pushing .NET 8 and no recruiter has Java skills on their checklist.

#Illumos #Solaris

Quixe – a pure-Javascript interpreter for the Glulx IF virtual machine. It can play any Glulx game file (.ulx or .gblorb) in a web browser. It does not require a server component; it runs entirely in the browser. https://archivegame.org/quixe/ #game #emulator #linux #osx #windows #bsd #unix #solaris

@fabiscafe @okapi espechally in the form of an interactive desktop...

• I could see it valid for multiple shell sessions, but #tmux & #screen cover that pretty well.

• If one has to login into different machines then chances are #aithentification is centralized anyway.

Needless to say #modernizations like #SystemD don't happen because people like #Poettering are "hobbyless", but because the preexisting status-quo (#SysVinit) was slow, inflexible and error-prone by strict linearity and non-parallelization.

• With a literal /etc/init file one can literally get a system to hang due to a mistake (i.e. certain call doesn't get invoked correctly), whereas on #SystemD (and competing solutions like #LaunchD on #macOS and #SMF on #Solaris) your desktop / laptop will continue to noot even if it doesn't have a network connection.

Not to mention as Benno Rice explained: 'Shit just gotmore dynamic!': We don't have that one big ass maingrame and serial terminals, instead we have laptops that may he carried around a campus or traveled with all day and that constantly switch between wireless and wired networks and have VPN tunnels open and whatnot...

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#plptools update!

Haiku

The #HaikuOS port is now mostly working, with caveats. Everything compiles except plpfuse, which might require migrating plpfuse to FUSE3. I've been able to send and receive files using plpftp, but RS232 DSR checking has to be disabled in the code. I don't want to speak too soon as it could very well be my mistake, but there might be a bug in Haiku's implementation of ioctl() for serial ports. Stay tuned...

FreeBSD

The #FreeBSD port currently has issues with linking to readline, but I'm sure that's fixable. However, a different issue has come up involving FreeBSD's implementation of the timezone global variable. This, in turn, might have uncovered some very old, slightly iffy code when working out timezone offsets.

Other platforms

The #macOS port is running fine at the moment, thanks to @captfab and @jbmorley's sterling work. If you're on macOS, check out Reconnect.

I'd like to resurrect the #NetBSD port for a few reasons, not least because you can still run the current release of NetBSD on a Series 5. I have no experience with NetBSD, so that's my challenge for this afternoon.

There are indications that plptools has at some point worked on #HPUX, #IRIX and #AIX. I personally feel that these ports probably don't need to be resurrected.

The code also mentions #Solaris - I'd certainly consider working on an #IllumOS port, if people were interested.

Interestingly, there's no mention of #OpenBSD, but again I would consider working on that if people are interested.

This is very much a *NIX/POSIX suite of tools. A Windows port isn't going to happen any time soon, unless someone wants to try building it using cygwin. I'm not saying it will never happen, but it's not a priority.

Misc

A couple of small bugs have been squashed by Reuben, including an issue where logging didn't go to stdout when using the --autoexit switch.

#psion #retrocomputing #retrodev

@wohali had a friend who had a working Enterprise 10000. I have a 5500 in a 5000 cabinet so it only takes the space of a refrigerator, but it doesnt serve beer! #unix #sunmicrosystems #solaris

Getting somewhat closer to releasing a new version of #swad. I now improved the functionality to execute something on a different worker thread: Use an in-memory queue, providing a #lockfree version. This gives me a consistent reliable throughput of 3000 requests/s (with outliers up to 4500 r/s) at an average response time of 350 - 400 ms (with TLS enabled). For waking up worker threads, I implemented different backends as well: kqueue, eventfd and event-ports, the fallback is still a self-pipe.

So, #portability here really means implement lots of different flavors of the same thing.

Looking at these startup logs, you can see that #kqueue (#FreeBSD and other BSDs) is really a "jack of all trades", being used for "everything" if available (and that's pretty awesome, it means one single #syscall per event loop iteration in the generic case). #illumos' (#Solaris) #eventports come somewhat close (but need a lot more syscalls as there's no "batch registering" and certain event types need to be re-registered every time they fired), they just can't do signals, but illumos offers Linux-compatible signalfd. Looking at #Linux, there's a "special case fd" for everything. 🙈 Plus #epoll also needs one syscall for each event to be registered. The "generic #POSIX" case without any of these interfaces is just added for completeness 😆

Year 7 as Oracle ACE Director #Solaris
Happy and very proud.
Thanks to the #OracleACE Team