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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"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

#Friday and #Saturday is the vintage computing festival West at the computer history museum in mountain view, ca
#vcfw #vcfw2025 #ca #mountainview #siliconvalley #sillyvalley
#computerHistorymuseum

I have three tables full of stuff in the consignment room, please come buy it all. It supports #vcfw and gets it out of my garage
#sf #sfbay #sfbayarea #sfnerd #sfgeek #retro #vintage #computing #computers #Dell #ibm #lenovo #thinkpad #sunmicrosystems #solaris #amiga
#scsi #usb #sony #vaio #apple #macintosh

#EFM #eflea #siliconValley #SillyValley
#vintagecomputing
#vintagecomputing #vintagecomputint #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputalk
#vintagehardware
#computerHistory
#retro
#retrocomputing #retroComputers
#WallOfRetro
#retroTech #retroTechnology
#nerdsOfVintage #happyNerding
#computer #tech
#apple #VintageApple #VintageMacintosh #macintosh #mac #mac_pro #mac_osx #MacintoshPr0n
#vintageDell #DellComputer #laptop #vintagelaptop #sparctember #suntember

#sunmicrosystem #vintageSun

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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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Airbus dévoile "Solaris", un avion solaire capable de voler jour et nuit sans carburant. Essais dès le 4 août 2025.
https://www.placeronde.fr/news/une/126433-on-pensait-que-cetait-impossible-airbus-annonce-un-avion-solaire-fonctionnant-jour-et-nuit-avec-zero-carburant-des-les-essais-du-4-aout-2025/
#Space #Science #Innovation #AerospaceEngineering #Solaris #AvionSolaire #TransitionEnergétique

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...

MojoMojo – a Catalyst & DBIx::Class powered Wiki. It is a content management system, borrowing many concepts from wikis and blogs. It allows you to maintain a full tree-structure of pages, and to interlink them in various ways. https://archiveapp.org/mojomojo/ #wiki #linux #bsd #osx #windows #unix #solaris