Heh.
Debian build
Openbox custom with menu pipes
And most of my custom python
Fuck Microsoft
I learned on SunOS machines as a kid
Debian build
Openbox custom with menu pipes
And most of my custom python
Fuck Microsoft
I learned on SunOS machines as a kid
October 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Heh.
Debian build
Openbox custom with menu pipes
And most of my custom python
Fuck Microsoft
I learned on SunOS machines as a kid
Debian build
Openbox custom with menu pipes
And most of my custom python
Fuck Microsoft
I learned on SunOS machines as a kid
The error message on SunOS/Solaris (I think) for failing reading an NFS share was "NFS server [name] not responding", and way back in the day (pre 2000) I came across a place that called their NFS servers after adverbs. E.g. "stubbornly" . Of course some clever person called one "probably" too. Fun.
October 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The error message on SunOS/Solaris (I think) for failing reading an NFS share was "NFS server [name] not responding", and way back in the day (pre 2000) I came across a place that called their NFS servers after adverbs. E.g. "stubbornly" . Of course some clever person called one "probably" too. Fun.
Netscape on SunOS 4 on a NCD Xterminal; LambdaMOO running in Emacs; email in Pine. Blessed days.
October 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Netscape on SunOS 4 on a NCD Xterminal; LambdaMOO running in Emacs; email in Pine. Blessed days.
SunOS 5/Solaris. Then I was playing with this new fangled Slackware Linux thing for fun...
December 24, 2024 at 2:27 PM
SunOS 5/Solaris. Then I was playing with this new fangled Slackware Linux thing for fun...
we are now, in fact, officially cooking 🔥
November 15, 2024 at 8:36 PM
we are now, in fact, officially cooking 🔥
Losing NFS locks and the SunOS SIGLOST signal https://lobste.rs/s/bfopp5 ##networking ##illumos https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/NFSLosingLocksAndSIGLOST
November 17, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Losing NFS locks and the SunOS SIGLOST signal https://lobste.rs/s/bfopp5 ##networking ##illumos https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/NFSLosingLocksAndSIGLOST
Of course I had used things such as old BSD, SysVr3 and 5, 7th Edition (I presume it was), PDP-11 Venix that didn't hide dot-files. SysVr3 I had some knowledge of internally. Not much, but some.
July 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Of course I had used things such as old BSD, SysVr3 and 5, 7th Edition (I presume it was), PDP-11 Venix that didn't hide dot-files. SysVr3 I had some knowledge of internally. Not much, but some.
En effet, mais c'est intéressant comme projet.
Un coup parti, tu veux être multiplateforme (Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris, SunOS, Irix, Aix, HP/UX, Plan9)?
Un coup parti, tu veux être multiplateforme (Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris, SunOS, Irix, Aix, HP/UX, Plan9)?
August 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
En effet, mais c'est intéressant comme projet.
Un coup parti, tu veux être multiplateforme (Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris, SunOS, Irix, Aix, HP/UX, Plan9)?
Un coup parti, tu veux être multiplateforme (Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris, SunOS, Irix, Aix, HP/UX, Plan9)?
In the first semester they taught us Miranda. That was quite an experience.
Most annoying part was that even if it was a tiny language with a tiny binary, it was proprietary and ran only on university SunOS machines.
Most annoying part was that even if it was a tiny language with a tiny binary, it was proprietary and ran only on university SunOS machines.
Miranda (programming language) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
In the first semester they taught us Miranda. That was quite an experience.
Most annoying part was that even if it was a tiny language with a tiny binary, it was proprietary and ran only on university SunOS machines.
Most annoying part was that even if it was a tiny language with a tiny binary, it was proprietary and ran only on university SunOS machines.
[Linux moan]
@seanddotmedotuk Erm, yeah, it's... been a while since I used a BSD system... I think the last time was a SunOS/Solaris system in 1996? So 28 years ago! I think the benefits they're touting are that the system init and configuration still works the same kind of way - no SystemD here.
@seanddotmedotuk Erm, yeah, it's... been a while since I used a BSD system... I think the last time was a SunOS/Solaris system in 1996? So 28 years ago! I think the benefits they're touting are that the system init and configuration still works the same kind of way - no SystemD here.
October 30, 2024 at 5:05 PM
[Linux moan]
@seanddotmedotuk Erm, yeah, it's... been a while since I used a BSD system... I think the last time was a SunOS/Solaris system in 1996? So 28 years ago! I think the benefits they're touting are that the system init and configuration still works the same kind of way - no SystemD here.
@seanddotmedotuk Erm, yeah, it's... been a while since I used a BSD system... I think the last time was a SunOS/Solaris system in 1996? So 28 years ago! I think the benefits they're touting are that the system init and configuration still works the same kind of way - no SystemD here.
As versions of Solaris / SunOS up until version 8 are considered abandoned, would it be useful for me to install and create clone images of them for other people to use with BlueSCSI / ZuluSCSI etc.?
April 17, 2024 at 7:09 PM
As versions of Solaris / SunOS up until version 8 are considered abandoned, would it be useful for me to install and create clone images of them for other people to use with BlueSCSI / ZuluSCSI etc.?
No, there are dependencies, but Slackware is kind of like old school SunOS or HP-UX in that it's expected that you'll install all of the OS...
December 10, 2024 at 3:01 PM
No, there are dependencies, but Slackware is kind of like old school SunOS or HP-UX in that it's expected that you'll install all of the OS...
A friend of mine took this one.
September 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
A friend of mine took this one.
Having tired of 'OS upgrade' things, am gonna install Zorin OS with my old MacBook Pro, instead of buying the latest laptop. I started my computer career with Unix-like os, such as FreeBSD and Linux, also used HP-UX SunOS Solaris. Unix is good since we can see what's going on inside. #ZorinOS #Mac
September 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
@sunos But won't having a pile of friends over be just as bad as having us game there?
November 6, 2024 at 3:27 PM
@sunos But won't having a pile of friends over be just as bad as having us game there?
@sunos @spiderkib SHHHH IT'S TRUE.
November 6, 2024 at 3:20 AM
@sunos @spiderkib SHHHH IT'S TRUE.
Sun Microsystems 勉強会ってのがあるようだ。
思い出話の勉強会かな？
私も昔使ったな。SPARCstation 2ってやつ。
当時はまだSunOSでBSD系だった。
その後、Solarisが出てきたが階層構造が微妙に違っていてなかなか慣れなかったな。
思い出話の勉強会かな？
私も昔使ったな。SPARCstation 2ってやつ。
当時はまだSunOSでBSD系だった。
その後、Solarisが出てきたが階層構造が微妙に違っていてなかなか慣れなかったな。
January 5, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Sun Microsystems 勉強会ってのがあるようだ。
思い出話の勉強会かな？
私も昔使ったな。SPARCstation 2ってやつ。
当時はまだSunOSでBSD系だった。
その後、Solarisが出てきたが階層構造が微妙に違っていてなかなか慣れなかったな。
思い出話の勉強会かな？
私も昔使ったな。SPARCstation 2ってやつ。
当時はまだSunOSでBSD系だった。
その後、Solarisが出てきたが階層構造が微妙に違っていてなかなか慣れなかったな。
I have rotated around apple/windows/linux/unix/sunos/dos for years. Still have to Google to figure out something I have forgotten.
July 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I have rotated around apple/windows/linux/unix/sunos/dos for years. Still have to Google to figure out something I have forgotten.
I sentence this defendant to a term of not less than twenty four months of accessing the web using lynx on a SunOS shell account.
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
September 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I sentence this defendant to a term of not less than twenty four months of accessing the web using lynx on a SunOS shell account.
That's Solaris, SunOS preceded it. The mentioned features were a part of the later editions (>=9) of Solaris. The best features of SunOS was an Admin's personal toolkit for managing it.
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
That's Solaris, SunOS preceded it. The mentioned features were a part of the later editions (>=9) of Solaris. The best features of SunOS was an Admin's personal toolkit for managing it.
This has been a pretty awesome couple days. Friday got to hang out with some of the folks I hadn't seen in a while (@Sunos @Spiderkib)...
November 3, 2024 at 6:04 PM
This has been a pretty awesome couple days. Friday got to hang out with some of the folks I hadn't seen in a while (@Sunos @Spiderkib)...
BASIC and COBOL. Both of which I learned on Commodore Vic20 in 1981 and VAX in 1983 (I was in High School), respectively. It led to my first real job (corporate) in data entry in '88, then job control and scheduling. Led to using SunOS and AIX by the 90s and the rest is history...
January 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
BASIC and COBOL. Both of which I learned on Commodore Vic20 in 1981 and VAX in 1983 (I was in High School), respectively. It led to my first real job (corporate) in data entry in '88, then job control and scheduling. Led to using SunOS and AIX by the 90s and the rest is history...
But I think about working on Solaris or SunOS or Irix and I do not miss it at all
September 4, 2024 at 11:40 AM
But I think about working on Solaris or SunOS or Irix and I do not miss it at all
All good. It’s been a long time since I’ve used the protocol name in a URL. Brings me back to the days of Mosaic on SunOS. :)
February 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
All good. It’s been a long time since I’ve used the protocol name in a URL. Brings me back to the days of Mosaic on SunOS. :)