Mastodawn

So … how many people so far today have told you that it was almost certainly a recording of an eshell session, which was then copied into the animations by animators; the process used for other scenes and revealed later by the person who did these effects? Basically the terminal user's equivalent of motion capture.

Got to be more than one. (-:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111007222352/http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178

Or that have pointed out Xorg in the process list? There's probably something to be inferred from those window widgets, too.

Alas, I strongly suspect that the person who did this died in the first year of COVID.

https://jtnimoy.cc

#TronLegacy #emacs #eshell #SunOS #Unix #Cinema4D #Adobe

jtnimoy - Tron Legacy (2010)

onion May 23

This is so damn cool, cloning the #Sun3/60, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpl1q2uuks4

#sunmicrosystems #m68k #sunos #netbsd

VCF West: Cloning the SUN 3/60

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ferricoxide May 22

@rockylinux

Been using Linux since the 0.98a kernel. Before that, I was using #SunOS, #NeXT and (probably) #AOS (university had a lab full of IBM RT PCs) UNIX derivatives. So, learning Linux was translating my existing knowledge and running the deltas through man pages and, especially #Usenet.

tallship May 21

@jselea Thanks goes out to Jonathan for this (still quite relevant) tidbit. For those of us who spent a lot of time with Sun #Solaris up through Solaris 10 there's a lot to appreciate here.

Solaris has been parted out, but here is an Enterprise production scale incarnation that's worth a looksee and testdrive. It's really a shame that the Evil EllisonCo destroyed so much - just discarded it like trash, following aquisitions, and what they didn't toss out in the trash they dissappointed the developers so much that it spawned forks that exist to fill the vacuum to this day:

- MySQL ==> MariaDB
- OOo ==> LibreOffice (The Document Foundation)
- Sun Enterprise Servers - rebranded as Oracle boxes
- Sun Solaris 10 ==> OpenIndiana and others (OmniOS, for one)
- Sun VirtualBox - Oracle VirtualBox

So without dwelling on the past or further ado, let's follow Jonathan's tour, shall we?

#tallship #FOSS #SunOS #OmniOS #Hypervisor #NAS #ZFS
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RE: https://blogs.linux.pizza/api/posts/1l2sks829g

Dr. Bruce Simpson May 8

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

The UNIX-HATERS Handbook - Wikipedia

Diane Bruce May 3

Nice to see mfsBSD for FreeBSD. Pity it has taken this long though. OpenBSD has had it for years, I remember installing SUNOS with a MFS BSD as well. ;)

#FreeBSD #SunOS #Sun3 #OpenBSD

Joanna Bryson Apr 27

#osx nae mehr! I was actually wondering whatever happened to x windows and if I could run my imac as a mac mini monitor that way. #linux #sunos

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fvxecvdtoy5zjdw2bhin7uh4/post/3mkiupbgpmc2k

wendythedruid Apr 17

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.