Mastodawn

When you interview a candidate for an #engineering role, what is your default always go to question. As a long time #Unix and #linux engineer (grew up on old #SunOS boxes back in the early 90s), my go to:

"What does Sudo !! do?"

Diane Bruce Apr 9

How many of you youngsters remember turning off the udp checksum to make SunOS NFS faster?

#SunOS #Sun #BSD #Unix

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Cody Boone Ferguson Apr 1

@Keldrim @nixCraft I already hated Oracle but when they bought Sun Microsystems I was REALLY unhappy. I have a lot of fond memories of #sunos / #solaris and those bloody planks just changed the copyright of everything Sun had written as if they were actually the authors. Maybe that’s a standard practice but it’s still dubious and I hate them for buying #SunMicrosystems and I for ever will. They are a horrible company with a long history of ruining things.

Hackaday Mar 21

Reviving a Cursed Sun SPARCstation IPX

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/reviving-a-cursed-sun-sparcstation-ipx/

13 Mar 22

Reviving a Cursed Sun SPARCstation IPX https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/reviving-a-cursed-sun-sparcstation-ipx/
#Retrocomputing #Solaris #Sparc #Sparcstation #Sun #SunOS

Reviving A Cursed Sun SPARCstation IPX

The best part about retro computing is the idea that you’ll save some poor system from being scrapped and revive it to a working state, at which point you can bask in the glory of a job well …

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wendythedruid Mar 20

@occult @catsalad heh , I’m
That old. I mean my stack of of sparc5 pizza boxes get turned on every so often just for the mems

#unix #sunos #solaris #oldtimegeek #sparc

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Bruce Simpson, Ph.D.Mar 15

@BrianJopek #Garbage's debut album was the soundtrack to my late #1995 learning #SunOS 4.1.3_U1 #UNIX

onion Feb 26

Someone did it ! A #sun3 clone https://github.com/54weasels/sun3_60
#sunos #sunmicrosystems #m68k #unix

GitHub - 54weasels/sun3_60

Contribute to 54weasels/sun3_60 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Pete Orrall Feb 17

These books are over 20 years old. Obviously much has changed since they were released but I still hang onto them since many of the concepts are still relevant.

On a side note: I'd probably find some masochist level of joy running these ancient OSes as daily drivers. 🤣

#linux #unix #freebsd #suse #solaris #vintage #sunos #ancienthistory #tech #books

Michael Engel Feb 16

Another question for Unix experts - this is a hexdump of a SunOS 4.0.1 install disk for Sun 386i systems. Does anyone recognise the file format? It looks like some sort of file system dump, but I don't think it's a variant of BSD dump(8).

The first fields seem to be (in ASCII) Access permissions, uid, and gid (and later the file/dir name).

#unix #filesystem #backup #disk #sunos #sun #sun386i