Mastodawn

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 5d ago

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.

Hackaday [Unofficial]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