14 Mar
2024
14 Mar
'24
3:27 a.m.
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 :).
Will