Diane Bruce
Scott Blaydes@DianeBruce How many remember that Sun had a unix before Slowaris?
nomad 
@sblaydes @DianeBruce It took a very long time before I forgave Sun for making the change from the good version of Unix to the stuff from AT&T.
A Very. Long. Time.
Bruce D Porter@nomad @sblaydes @DianeBruce personally, the switch from having to make a new kernel to just patch and boot(if required) was a bonus IME.
We found the Solaris admin. jk
I never got to admin a Sun or Solaris box, was just brought in the solve a particular issue.
@DianeBruce @sblaydes @ytc1 I ran SunOS and Solaris for Qualcomm in the mid-late 90s and did a little Solaris 10 in the mid aughts (I think) for $job[0] at UW.
Right now I'm administering OmniOS, an Illumos-based distry, for file servers at $job[1].
You (I) can run but you (I) can not hide.
@nomad @DianeBruce @sblaydes I drank the cool aid, joined ☀️ in 2000, left when oracle took over.
I worked with Solaris from 1991 until 2024.
Still run a personal server, S11, really need to move to OmniOS
I worked with Solaris from 1991 until 2024.
Still run a personal server, S11, really need to move to OmniOS
@DianeBruce @ytc1 @sblaydes I ran BSDi until FreeBSD became a viable thing and BSDi was struggling. It amused me no end when I installed "BSD 4.2" on my home server, since the original version of that was the first Unix I'd ever touched.
Have you heard anything from Rob Kolstad? I recently heard his voice in an interview, I think it was The Serial Port. Took me back.
@nomad @ytc1 @sblaydes I really only knew Mike Karels (co-worker) and Chris Torek (co-worker). I used to chat with Mike at BSDCan. I remember Chris had kitties purring on phone.
One thing that struck me was how bad the serial port driver was on BSDos compared to FreeBSD. I had to debug a panic due to BSDOS serial console weirdness. I honestly thought we (BSDi) would have been better off just moving to FreeBSD and supporting it that way as BSDOS code was pretty stale in places.
One thing that struck me was how bad the serial port driver was on BSDos compared to FreeBSD. I had to debug a panic due to BSDOS serial console weirdness. I honestly thought we (BSDi) would have been better off just moving to FreeBSD and supporting it that way as BSDOS code was pretty stale in places.
@DianeBruce I knew both of them through Usenix though I seriously doubt they'd remember me. They were amazingly talented. I felt like such a technical pauper when I chatted with them.
@nomad Mike gave a great talk at BSDCan a few years ago. It's on youtube somewhere. I remember being at the talk.