On 3/13/24 3:12 PM, Henry Bent wrote:

Hi all,

I've been working quite a bit recently with SunOS 4 on a SPARCstation 5, seeing what I can coax out of it in terms of building and supporting a modern computing environment.  I know that TUHS isn't really the right place for this, but can someone point me to somewhere that is?  I've made significant progress in some areas and spent a lot of cycles to get there - for instance, I have GCC 3.4.6 up and running - so I'd like to contribute to a community if one exists.  Is there a modern equivalent of sun-managers?

-Henry

Not an answer to the question, but on a tangent...

I recently saw that Solaris 11.4 SRU66 was released and had a yearning to see how things in Solaris land were doing (can't stand Gnome so OpenIndiana's a bust)... but with Oracle's Solaris, it's a mess at least for hobbyists (only get release patches, so I'm guessing the most up to date 'release' was 11.4 in 2018). So, when I saw your post on SunOS 4, I thought I'd tool around and see if it was easy to get rolling as a VM, turns out things have come a long way on that front:

https://defcon.no/sysadm/playing-with-sunos-4-1-4-on-qemu/

OpenWindows 3... wow... works great on my Mint instance. Now, if I could just remember how commands work on SunOS :).