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
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
Final challenge for the weekend ... trying to resurrect the good old Blade 2000. Sans CPU/RAM/HD right now.
Is there anyone in #Australia or #NZ, or who would be willing to ship to NZ, who could donate a #SPARC #Solaris (sun4u/sun4v) machine to the building effort for FractalKit? We're running up against some limits and some really bad time sinks, doing all of this on a 650MHz #UltraSPARC IIe is.... really really painful. We know this is a long shot, but if anyone out there has a machine they could donate to this we would be immensely thankful. This porting effort is really important to us but it's not going to be actually useful if a single library takes a day to compile. If you can't help, then please boost? @SolarisDiaspora
Is there anyone in #Australia or #NZ, or who would be willing to ship to NZ, who could donate a #SPARC #Solaris (sun4u/sun4v) machine to the building effort for FractalKit? We're running up against some limits and some really bad time sinks, doing all of this on a 650MHz #UltraSPARC IIe is.... really really painful. We know this is a long shot, but if anyone out there has a machine they could donate to this we would be immensely thankful. This porting effort is really important to us but it's not going to be actually useful if a single library takes a day to compile.
Die #Ultra5 hat eine #UltraSPARC-IIi 360MHz CPU und 128 MB RAM.
Das NVRAM wurde gefixed, aber derzeit Produziert sie keine Ausgabe auf dem VGA Port. Evtl. hat sind das Alterserscheinugen des Netzteils.
#sun people
What should i run on my #Ultra5
#sparc #ultrasparc
@DigA_UniLeipzig alles ist besser als #MicrosoftExchange: Selbst nen alter #UltraSPARC-T2 mit #Solaris sowie #Postfix & #Courierist besser, weils nativ mit allen Clients.wie @thunderbird funktioniert.
@yakkoj #OpenFirmware was the most pleasant boot environment I ever used. I could figure out how to boot things, which is not exactly true today with an EFI shell.
And that was on real hardware, too.
Finally ran "poweroff" on my trusty old #ultrasparc #server 🥰
It did good for almost 20 years with #linux. Probably would have run for a while longer but the IDE system disk started to fail. All the important stuff was a on separate raid that got migrated to a boring x86 VM.
But now I can experiment with it a bit more as it's not in any production use anymore.
Had to wait for October. It just felt wrong to do it under #suntember
#sunmicrosystems #selfhosting
System drive (good old IDE!) started to get cranky in my Netra AX1105-500 #UltraSparc IIe so it was time to migrate services to a boring x86 VM.
It had taken care of my email needs since 2006, so pretty much 24/7 💪 little #sparc now have a nice retirement.
#rip #sunmicrosystems #NetraAX #suntember
New machines to test with #gentoo #ppc64le #ultrasparc #t1
ᐅ The LAST SUN Workstation Made: Sun Ultra 45 Overview (UltraSparc IIIi)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BjshAKzhxTE
#Sun #SunUltra #SunUltra45 #UltraSparc #UltraSparcIIIi #Retrocomputing
eheheheh, so fucking excited for tomorrow, we get to actually have a real SPARC server! We're going to test a couple of #Illumos distros, including #tribblix and #OpenIndiana, as well as #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, and #Debian... we would test actual mainline #Solaris but the bastards who murdered #Sun and then stripped their corpse for parts decided to discontinue support for #UltraSPARC CPUs and we refuse to pay them $BIGNUM to get one of their servers that you need activation keys to boot their CPUs, fuck off. Any other OSes yall want us to test? Software?
The what, now? #sunmicrosystems #ultrasparc
Sip of Big Red deserved as got this one's #Sun Ultra 60 to boot! #Instanssi @instanssi #Ultra60 #SPARC #UltraSPARC
One more time, with feeling, my nemesis.
#sun #sparc #ultraSparc #retroComputing #netBSD #Solaris
~15 years ago I worked as a #datacenter manager and #unix #sysadmin. Some of the more interesting decommissioned servers got a second life with me.
This #SunFireV880 with 8× #UltraSPARC III CPUs and 64GB RAM and maxed out with #fiberchannel hard drives.
Used it as a home #ZFS Lab on #Solaris 10. But eventually my home hadn't space for it though and it was relocated to a friend.
So this is another post about the hardware I regret not keeping.