The bazaar hosts a babble of languages. Learn to speak to all the merchants so you can haggle for the packages you desire. Perhaps even antiquities from the #Solaris shop, from a time before the oceans drowned Atlantis. #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenSource https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/package-management.html?s=mc

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https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/valuable-news-2025-08-11/

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Now that jdk25 has reached release candidate status, here's a copy of it for Solaris 11 x86:

https://pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/intel-solaris/

Hey everyone, question for you all Sun lovers out there: What is a good (and reliable) alternative to an IDE disk for a Sun UltraSparc 5/10? I just bought an IDE-to-SATA converter, and while the drives are correctly detected, I get DMA timeouts trying to write anything to disk. #retrocomputing #sparc64 #solaris

actually, this time around its GIGO+M (Garbage in, Garbage out, plus magic)

"Elvis is alive! How 'AI' stunts modern mythmaking" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/elvis_solaris_ai_mythmaking.html (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/elvis-is-alive-how-ai-stunts-modern.htmltracked ) #elvis #solaris #unix #ping #networking #AI #mythmaking #artificialintelligence #aislop #history

I am an old man. I regularly yell at clouds. "Elvis is alive! How 'AI' stunts modern mythmaking" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/elvis_solaris_ai_mythmaking.html (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/elvis-is-alive-how-ai-stunts-modern.htmltracked ) #elvis #solaris #unix #ping #networking #AI #mythmaking #artificialintelligence #aislop #history

Elvis is alive! How 'AI' stunts modern mythmaking https://nxdomain.no/~peter/elvis_solaris_ai_mythmaking.html A chance followup to an old geek joke reveals how AI creates myths based on severely limited historical inputs

#elvis #elvisisalive #solaris #unix #ping #networking #geekjoke #AI #mythmaking #artificialintelligence #aislop #history (also https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/elvis-is-alive-how-ai-stunts-modern.html)

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https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/valuable-news-2025-08-04/

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"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison"

I'm guessing this quote is pretty famous. Here's a good presentation by Bryan Cantrill about the history of SunOS, Solaris and OpenSolaris, up to the point that Oracle tried to kill it and illumos happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

Filed under reasons the #Solaris Bourne shell (/bin/sh on Solaris 10 & older, /usr/sunos/bin/sh on Solaris 11) drove people mad:

https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=b1eb59a78a0d5f1bdb10bc8869d5e48f73dcbc7a
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2025-07/msg00004.html

Took a bit longer than I hoped, but my build of the latest JDK17 update for Solaris 11.4 on SPARC is now available for download:

https://pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/sparc-solaris/

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https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/valuable-news-2025-07-28/

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Good morning Fedi! Do any of yall use a operating system that's not Linux, Windows, BSD or Mac on a regular basis? If so, which one?

I am this old...

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https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/valuable-news-2025-07-21/

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my essay for @aeon.co on the science of alien languages and science fiction has gone live! This thing is over a year in the making. Give it a read and let us know what you think! #xenolinguistics #alien #language #scifi #philosophy #solaris

Is it time to chart a new path...

Does anyone have any empty drive sleds for a Sun T5120? I am getting the server tomorrow, but I'd like to have something to securely mount the drives in there instead of just sliding them in there...

#sun #solaris #servers

Latest openjdk update builds for Solaris 11.4 on x86:

https://pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/intel-solaris/