[TUHS] Re: SunOS 4 in 2024

[Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>]

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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

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