Interesting detour today debugging a very strange man page display issue on Oracle #Solaris 11.4.66. It was reported by a customer as being an issue with Japanese man pages in ja_JP.UTF-8 and copy/paste. With the help of truss(1) I reproduced it with en_US.UTF-8 as well. Turns out we updated groff that monthly release and this was an intentional change. @alanc then pointed me to https://lwn.net/Articles/947941/ that shows #Debian had this same issue after updating grids 😔
Created a new hda today. Lets lookdev target specific selections or faces for material binding. Basically makes the process of creating geomsubsets more artist friendly whilst keeping them usd compliant!
Does anyone know of an archive of old Sun patchdisks, or the access1.sun.com website/FTP?
I need Patch ID# 104688-01, a TCP/IP fix for Interactive Unix 4.1.
and Patch ID# 107232-01, a IUS 4.1.1 NFS fix. #unix#classicunix#retrocomputing#oldunix#sun#solaris
Oh wow I'm loving these themed tags - for #ScreenshotSaturday this is my Sun Blade 150 workstation running Solaris 10u8 showing off the #sgug homepage! It's a very reliable if boring machine due to its use of commodity parts and architectural decisions like using an IDE bus over a SCSI bus
Oracle #Solaris 11.4.66 (monthly SRUs) moves the core OS and all the FOSS that wasn’t yet on OpenSSL 3.0 to using it. We aren’t quite at the point where 1.0.2 can be removed (and won’t get installed by default) but we hope to be there by around 11.4.69 if we can. Next step is making /usr/bin/openssl and the default compilation environment the 3.0 version https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-oracle-solaris-114-sru66
My first distro, if we mean *nix systems in general, was Solaris back in undergrad. It was cool and all, but really just introduced me to the idea that there was more than Windows and Mac out there.
But many years later, I tried Linux Mint (sometime around Olivia, IIRC). That caught my attention—it made a system that Windows slogged on go much faster. First I used MATE, then Cinnamon, then XFCE. And when I found myself hankering for more efficiency than Mint XFCE could provide, I dove into Arch Linux, and that was when the addiction proved permanent.
For those who aren't aware, those old Sun boxes were built to run for years without having to shutdown. redundancy was at every level. Redundant, hot-plug power supplies, and of course, hot-swap HDDs.
You could even swap out memory cards simply by opening the box, pressing a button to disable one of the memory banks, swap it out for one with good RAM, and then with a press of a button activate the replacement or upgraded RAM.
Those machine's were beasts!
Imagine you're a small company with about 100 or so employees, drivers, foundry workers, office staff of about 20 or 25 people, all of your accounting, invoicing, order/inventory control, and even the jobs you receive from Home Depot (where you get most of your kitchen installation orders) come into that one machine, which has plenty of spare parts to replace virtually anything that fails...
@gabriel just asked this hypothetical, I presume in jest, because he wants to hear war stories or maybe how field engineers look at problems stemming from a customers irresponsible behaviors test our impatience, bringing out the #BOFH in all of us, lolz...
The Sun Ultra5, released ~25 years ago is now running the latest NetBSD release - so a unix in active development which has all the nice features like IPv6.
I jumped through some loops to get #Solaris running, but to no avail. For net booting Solaris, one needs in the first place to find something which can serve NFS version1, I used "Fedora core 1" in a KVM guest for that. Booting Solaris fails later though.
(details: https://fluxcoil.net/wiki/hardwarerelated/sun_ultra_5 )