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Grumpy Old Techie 🕊️Things I like about FreeBSD: "You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish."is still listed as a bug in the tunefs man page on FreeBSD 14.3 I first saw it more that 30 years ago on SunOS that was BSD based at the time.<a href="https://hostux.social/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/filesystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#filesystem</a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unix</a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/sunos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sunos</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ytc1</a> <a href="https://mas.to/@DenOfEarth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@DenOfEarth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@aka_pugs</a> I know.And espechally in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ScientificComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScientificComputing</a> a lot of researchers loved working with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SunMicrosystems</a> and when <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oracle</a> took over that relationship got sour'd instantly due to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oracle</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CEO</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LarryEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LarryEllison</a>...-> <a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114682503920794745" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114682503920794745</a>One of the big successes of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sun</a> was that they basically declared a unilateral "ceasefire" in terms of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IP</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Patents</a> re: <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a>. Whereas Oracle didn't seem willing to honour that.<ul><li>Without that cooperative atmosphere we saw <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenOffice</a> devs literally forking off into <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@libreoffice</a> and projects like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#illumos</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/@openzfs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@openzfs</a> scramble to save what was OpenSource'd and also rescue that.</li></ul>Obviously <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> with it's <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPLv2only" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPLv2only</a>-Kernel and most of it's Userland could not get 'closed-sourced' like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSolaris</a> which instantly got stomped out by Oracle as they wanted to sqeeze <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Solaris</a> for profits and milk their clients in typical Oracle fashion...<ul><li>Which is sad because <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#competition</a> breeds <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#innovation</a> and a lot of stuff like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Zones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Zones</a> in Solaris really were at their time really forcing <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/KVM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KVM</a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/bhyve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bhyve</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BSDjails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BSDjails</a> to up their game for good.</li></ul>Now granted, I do know someone who for most of their life made their money dealing with the intricacies of setting up <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/postfix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#postfix</a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/sendmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sendmail</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/courier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#courier</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MailServers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MailServers</a> on Solaris and if I ask said person about that they give me a kilometer stare, so OFC like a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SysV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SysV</a> - <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Unix</a> systems Solaris and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SunOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SunOS</a> really are one of the reasons <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WindowsNT</a> won the "<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WorkstationWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkstationWar</a>" and why - if anyone - <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> won the last "<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UnixWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnixWar</a>"...<ul><li>Still I do am sad that I declined that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sysadmin</a> 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...</li></ul><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1/114689337148586939" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1/114689337148586939</a>

12 Freya it/its𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩testing: can we install <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> in a <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/SmartOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartOS</a> zone? It seems that pkgsrc provides all the packages we need, now we just need to see whether <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/postgresql" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#postgresql</a>, <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/nodejs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nodejs</a>, <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/ruby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ruby</a>, or any of the Mastodon codebase assumes things about <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> that are not true in a <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Solaris</a> (/ <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/SunOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SunOS</a> / <a href="https://eightpoint.app/tags/Illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Illumos</a>, whatever you want to call it) environment.

IT NewsRelive the Glory Days of Sun Workstations - When the IBM PC first came out, it was little more than a toy. The serious people ... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2023/04/15/relive-the-glory-days-of-sun-workstations/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2023/04/15/relive-the-glory-days-of-sun-workstations/</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/sunmicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sunmicrosystems</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#solaris</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sparc</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/sunos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sunos</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/qemm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#qemm</a>

Ross of OttawaIn the '90s I worked on big chip design projects, and would create these big test suites for part of my chip's functionality which would've taken about 100years (literally) to run on one machine, but i could farm out the tasks to process in parallel on all the machines of my co-workers when they went home and get it done in 10 or 12 hrs instead. It created a sense that an idle processor is a wasted opportunity.Could hashtag that with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/verilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#verilog</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vhdl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sunOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sunOS</a> I suppose

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