Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Old commercial UNIX in '26 Date: 15 Jun 2026 20:01:43 GMT Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <110pk59$2tr$1@reader1.panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ZaMNtTDtiPjjQn2r2hFUtAGPCSbZ1LuFW0H/x+BpnuILeE67nY Cancel-Lock: sha1:fjDp8N8Ig07Ghp2yzsssyiQYcaE= sha256:P2CZvrJSSz+LOaMcTi2+PMz9rI6DqeQgdmVVtuX+Sp4= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:235038 On Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:35:05 +0000, Dan Cross wrote: > In article , > Piper McCorkle wrote: >>I've always been quite curious about commercial Unices, but when I was >>born Linux had already put the writing on the wall for them. I think it >>would be quite fun to set up a UNIX server in my homelab and have it >>host some services (WWW, Gopher, Gemini, etc), but I've heard plenty of >>horror stories about actually operating these things. Are there any >>commercial UNIX variants from the '90s-early '00s that aren't a complete >>and utter pain in the ass to administer? (especially coming from a Linux >>background) >> >>I'm thinking of going with Solaris, if only because I have some hardware >>(a Sun Fire system in unknown condition) that I could try to restore. >>But I know the installation process will definitely be a pain in the >>ass. The system doesn't have an optical drive, so I'll need to install >>Solaris over the network. No clue how to set up the server necessary for >>that - hopefully I can do it on OpenIndiana! > > I hate to be the one saying it, but ... it wasn't that cool. :-) > > Something that is kind of fun is to set up 4.3BSD on an emulated VAX, > though. Like this? https://unixhistory.tavi.co.uk/quasijarus.html