@ytc1 @DenOfEarth @aka_pugs I know.

And espechally in #ScientificComputing a lot of researchers loved working with #SunMicrosystems and when #Oracle took over that relationship got sour'd instantly due to #Oracle #CEO #LarryEllison...

-> https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114682503920794745

One of the big successes of #Sun was that they basically declared a unilateral "ceasefire" in terms of #IP & #Patents re: #OpenSource. Whereas Oracle didn't seem willing to honour that.

• Without that cooperative atmosphere we saw #OpenOffice devs literally forking off into @libreoffice and projects like #illumos and @openzfs scramble to save what was OpenSource'd and also rescue that.

Obviously #Linux with it's #GPLv2only-Kernel and most of it's Userland could not get 'closed-sourced' like #OpenSolaris which instantly got stomped out by Oracle as they wanted to sqeeze #Solaris for profits and milk their clients in typical Oracle fashion...

• Which is sad because #competition breeds #innovation and a lot of stuff like #Zones in Solaris really were at their time really forcing #KVM, #bhyve and #BSDjails to up their game for good.

Now granted, I do know someone who for most of their life made their money dealing with the intricacies of setting up #postfix, #sendmail and #courier #MailServers on Solaris and if I ask said person about that they give me a kilometer stare, so OFC like a #SysV - #Unix systems Solaris and #SunOS really are one of the reasons #WindowsNT won the "#WorkstationWar" and why - if anyone - #Apple won the last "#UnixWar"...

• Still I do am sad that I declined that #sysadmin position at a leading research center I'm not at liberty to name and I do know there's OFC still some critical infrastructure running even older Solaris servers...

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1/114689337148586939

The RasterFlex has a custom framebuffer logo.

@fuchsiii @tubetime but can we please acknowledge how beautiful the #monospaced #serif font of #SunOS's #Terminal is?
https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/110805925678718473

@stefano First contact with actual Unix was in '91 - online; I had access to account on one of .uni servers, which run #Sun #SunOS. I had to jump from #VMS student account to privileged professors one, then access X.25, go to internet gateway and you are on tcp/ip. Just jump to .uni, login, and voilà - SunOS (on another continent!)

Then I had some exposure to Ultrix, but local .edu VMS was far more interesting :D

Then around year 2K I started to realize that I can build Linux server with a lot of functionality of very expensive Apple Server for about $0 cost. My choice, at the time was Mandrake.

Then, a few years later, I discovered FreeBSD (6) and it's my firewall, router, nas, desktop (my personal desktop is #FreeBSD 13.2-STABLE / #KDE) or server for any purpose - OS of choice for any role.

@DianeBruce @jcamos @stefano I keep thinking it would be fun to have an #illumos / #sunos oriented server, but I hardly imagine there’d be many users. But maybe there are more #mnx & #oxide fans than I imagine.

@ball It should definitely fit in reasonable memory sized #VAXen, say 16MB. The kernel can be stripped back and the ramdisk needs just enough to prompt for source and target devices, plus gzip - so much less than the current #sysinst based images. Something akin to the old #SunOS miniroot boot tape.

As it happens #NetBSD/ #amiga still has a miniroot install option - you partition with #AmigaOS native tools, write the miniroot to what will be the swap partition, then boot into it to complete.

@davidegts When you boot all the Os's from #SunOS 4 through #Opensolaris and even the new #illumos ARM image you can boot through History! :)