Old suns were great servers, not so much as desktops these days. Get an old Sparc 2/5/10/20 or an Ultra 1 or 2, run it headless (or don't run
the GUI) and it'd serve hundreds of clients a day.

Yes - IIRC this one @ RE-PC was a Sparc 5 or 10...

In today land, I was thinking of running the GUI OS; not that it would run great or whatnot - but I think it would be best for just refurbishing a Sun computer in 2025...



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paulie420 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

In today land, I was thinking of running the GUI OS; not that it would
run great or whatnot - but I think it would be best for just
refurbishing a Sun computer in 2025...

Yeah, a Sparc 5 would run CDE just fine and render some simple web
pages. Definitely would be a fun experience.



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On 20 Jan 2025 at 08:51a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

In today land, I was thinking of running the GUI OS; not that it woul run great or whatnot - but I think it would be best for just refurbishing a Sun computer in 2025...

Yeah, a Sparc 5 would run CDE just fine and render some simple web
pages. Definitely would be a fun experience.

If you're going to set up a SPARC 5 in 2025, then do what god
and Bill Joy intended and run SunOS 4 with OpenWindows.

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tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

If you're going to set up a SPARC 5 in 2025, then do what god
and Bill Joy intended and run SunOS 4 with OpenWindows.

Preach, brother.



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tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

If you're going to set up a SPARC 5 in 2025, then do what god
and Bill Joy intended and run SunOS 4 with OpenWindows.

I think that's the route I'm going to end up going with my SS10 after sitting on it for years. I've spent time off/on trying to get a recent pkgsrc running on Sol8, but I think in the end I may just go the route that god intended. :)

That said though, I know I'm going to end up frustrated trying to get anything even 20-years-current to run on it. I don't have enough programming-fu to troubleshoot those compilation errors...

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That said though, I know I'm going to end up frustrated trying to get anything

Like someone else said, I'd go no later than SunOS 4.5.5 (Solaris 2.5.5) with Openwin in place of CDE. If you can find an archive of solarisfreeware.com, you'd be golden.

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solarisfreeware.com? If you mean sunfreeware.com, I have a mirror of that online: ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.sunfreeware.com/

The latest Solaris patch cluster may also be of use: https://www.zx.net.nz/vc/updates/opsys/solaris.shtml

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solarisfreeware.com? If you mean sunfreeware.com, I have a mirror of that

That must've been it! Very awesome! Thank you for having that up!

How big is the whole thing? ;)



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du says its 77GB (little surprised its that much!). If you want to grab a copy for safe keeping, ftp.zx.net.nz speaks rsync as well as ftp and http.

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