[TUHS] Re: SunOS 4 in 2024

[Earl Baugh <earl.baugh@gmail.com>]

Another reason why it’s fun use the older OS’s.   For old Sun HW, I don’t believe SunView can be beat.
It was always very performant for me, and met the basic goals of a window manager that I needed.
(I’m not one that needs a huge amount of customization..)

Earl

> On Mar 13, 2024, at 8:40 PM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 3/13/24 14:27, Will Senn wrote:
>> 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)...
> 
> You might not find Solaris much more to your liking then, since Solaris 11.0
> and later only include the GNOME desktop. (Solaris 2.6 through 10 also had
> CDE, and Solaris 1.0 through 8 also had OpenWindows.)  In Solaris 11.4, it's
> GNOME 3 - up to GNOME 41 in SRU 66.
> 
> OpenIndiana went with MATE instead of GNOME 3, and I believe has some other
> desktop choices as well.  The Tribblix distro of illumos offers a choice of
> Xfce, Mate, OpenCDE, or Enlightenment on top of the same core OS derived from
> OpenSolaris.
> 
>> 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).
> 
> There's also the "CBE" release from 2022 to allow people building open source
> to build & test on a somewhat newer base:
> https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-the-first-oracle-solaris-114-cbe
> 
> It's roughly equivalent to a beta build of Solaris 11.4 SRU 42.  (Solaris 11.4
> issues "Support Repository Updates" or SRUs around once a month, so the SRU
> number is basically the count of the number of months after August 2018 that
> a given SRU was released.)
> 
> But yeah, if you want to stay up to date, you need a support contract.
> 
> -- 
>        -Alan Coopersmith-                 alan.coopersmith@oracle.com
>         Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris
>