SunOS 4.0.3 desktop from 1989. I will take this over modern stuff any day. Sun was rock solid with Unix and hardware stuff until Oracle decided to ruin that iconic brand.
June 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
SunOS 4.0.3 desktop from 1989. I will take this over modern stuff any day. Sun was rock solid with Unix and hardware stuff until Oracle decided to ruin that iconic brand.
The OS Museum proudly includes TempleOS alongside UNIX, DOS, SunOS, VMS, and a thousand more accomplishments of human cleverness and creation.
May 21, 2026 at 8:36 PM
The OS Museum proudly includes TempleOS alongside UNIX, DOS, SunOS, VMS, and a thousand more accomplishments of human cleverness and creation.
Unix, BSD, AIX, SunOS, NeXTStep, Linux.
what are the Six Genders? wrong answers only
May 16, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Unix, BSD, AIX, SunOS, NeXTStep, Linux.
CTX 19" Sony FD Trinitron CRT
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Sun Microsystems - Sun Ultra 1 Enterprise
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Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8) UNIX
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Sun Microsystems - Sun Ultra 1 Enterprise
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Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8) UNIX
August 14, 2026 at 8:58 PM
CTX 19" Sony FD Trinitron CRT
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Sun Microsystems - Sun Ultra 1 Enterprise
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Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8) UNIX
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Sun Microsystems - Sun Ultra 1 Enterprise
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Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8) UNIX
Incorrect, the terminal in tron 2 clearly says SunOS 4
March 2, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Incorrect, the terminal in tron 2 clearly says SunOS 4
Lupasin ilahduttaa @arktikfox.bsky.social hieman 🥰
December 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Lupasin ilahduttaa @arktikfox.bsky.social hieman 🥰
SunOS 4.1.4 says it can't possibly be the year 2023: "WARNING: preposterous time in filesystem -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!"
sorry SunOS, there's nothing i can do to fix 2023.
sorry SunOS, there's nothing i can do to fix 2023.
August 1, 2023 at 5:15 AM
SunOS 4.1.4 says it can't possibly be the year 2023: "WARNING: preposterous time in filesystem -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!"
sorry SunOS, there's nothing i can do to fix 2023.
sorry SunOS, there's nothing i can do to fix 2023.
youre telling me they have x86 SunOS
![SunOS 4.0.1 (3.5) [Sun386]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:efp23x4vfjmmk6ixfjiryft4/bafkreib743epkg56jtxoidzrx3u6goxqzqo7trzpvdjxybhandmlodn6rq)
February 20, 2025 at 2:50 AM
youre telling me they have x86 SunOS
You asked, you got: Welcome sparcy a Sun SS20 running Solaris 2.6 / SunOS 5.6 is now available in the icm.museum Vintage Systems UNiX Cluster. Thanks to RabbitHole Computing for providing the ZuluSCSI #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
February 2, 2026 at 7:28 PM
You asked, you got: Welcome sparcy a Sun SS20 running Solaris 2.6 / SunOS 5.6 is now available in the icm.museum Vintage Systems UNiX Cluster. Thanks to RabbitHole Computing for providing the ZuluSCSI #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
David has a SunOS laptop! And it's running Motif!
July 5, 2026 at 3:43 AM
David has a SunOS laptop! And it's running Motif!
we are now, in fact, officially cooking 🔥
November 15, 2024 at 8:36 PM
we are now, in fact, officially cooking 🔥
Netscape on SunOS 4 on a NCD Xterminal; LambdaMOO running in Emacs; email in Pine. Blessed days.
October 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Netscape on SunOS 4 on a NCD Xterminal; LambdaMOO running in Emacs; email in Pine. Blessed days.
June 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
KDE 3.4.1+sunos in 2024 FTW
December 13, 2024 at 4:58 AM
KDE 3.4.1+sunos in 2024 FTW
by this logic, Linux is SunOS
August 7, 2026 at 6:25 AM
by this logic, Linux is SunOS
Oh, but it did. It may not have reached the critical mass you’re talking about, but that pissed off a lot of people.
Solaris was never the darling of the free software community that SunOS was.
Solaris was never the darling of the free software community that SunOS was.
September 24, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Oh, but it did. It may not have reached the critical mass you’re talking about, but that pissed off a lot of people.
Solaris was never the darling of the free software community that SunOS was.
Solaris was never the darling of the free software community that SunOS was.
Gosh I need to dredge my Sun UltraSPARC out and get something loaded on it, maybe SunOS 4 :v
January 11, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Gosh I need to dredge my Sun UltraSPARC out and get something loaded on it, maybe SunOS 4 :v
An emotional evening installing SunOS 4.1.3 for the first time in 30 years! I've been getting nostalgic for Sun workstations - if the ZX81 was my first home micro, the Sun was my first work machine. My first job as a junior systems manager was to install a server and network of diskless clients ...
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
An emotional evening installing SunOS 4.1.3 for the first time in 30 years! I've been getting nostalgic for Sun workstations - if the ZX81 was my first home micro, the Sun was my first work machine. My first job as a junior systems manager was to install a server and network of diskless clients ...
my first commercial programming task was to write an inetd service that simply said "rlogin is gone. use ssh instead" so the stragglers would read and/or log that. this was uh, 1999 I think? perl5 on sunos and solaris. simpler times in so many ways
January 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
my first commercial programming task was to write an inetd service that simply said "rlogin is gone. use ssh instead" so the stragglers would read and/or log that. this was uh, 1999 I think? perl5 on sunos and solaris. simpler times in so many ways
esbuild is the worst contender because it has binaries for aix, sunos, s390x, loongarch, mips64el. who is running these platforms?
August 20, 2024 at 4:47 PM
esbuild is the worst contender because it has binaries for aix, sunos, s390x, loongarch, mips64el. who is running these platforms?
My first UNIX workstation as an Assist Professor was a Sun UltraSPARC (1999). Had it on my desk next to my Windows box. I learned UNIX on an IBM RS6000 running AIX as a grad student in the mid-1990s. I had also used Sun for some classes. Much preferred SunOS. #retrocomputing #SunOS #IBMAIX
July 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
My first UNIX workstation as an Assist Professor was a Sun UltraSPARC (1999). Had it on my desk next to my Windows box. I learned UNIX on an IBM RS6000 running AIX as a grad student in the mid-1990s. I had also used Sun for some classes. Much preferred SunOS. #retrocomputing #SunOS #IBMAIX
the fake sunos is so good bcuz its like a shitpost, application, and a love letter all in one thing and its one of the things that solves "the trainman problem"
March 10, 2025 at 4:53 AM
the fake sunos is so good bcuz its like a shitpost, application, and a love letter all in one thing and its one of the things that solves "the trainman problem"
My husband will never let me live down noticing that Kevin's workstation in Tron:Legacy ran a reasonably plausible version of SunOS.
March 18, 2024 at 9:29 PM
My husband will never let me live down noticing that Kevin's workstation in Tron:Legacy ran a reasonably plausible version of SunOS.
Clearly never had to work with SunOS
November 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Clearly never had to work with SunOS
Apple Mac mini M1
Asahi Linux (Debian)
SunOS 5.9 SPARC (QEMU)
Rhapsody DR2 (86Box)
NeXTSTEP 3.3 (Previous)
Mac OS 8.1 (Basilisk II)
Workbench 1.3 (Amiberry)
Asahi Linux (Debian)
SunOS 5.9 SPARC (QEMU)
Rhapsody DR2 (86Box)
NeXTSTEP 3.3 (Previous)
Mac OS 8.1 (Basilisk II)
Workbench 1.3 (Amiberry)
March 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Apple Mac mini M1
Asahi Linux (Debian)
SunOS 5.9 SPARC (QEMU)
Rhapsody DR2 (86Box)
NeXTSTEP 3.3 (Previous)
Mac OS 8.1 (Basilisk II)
Workbench 1.3 (Amiberry)
Asahi Linux (Debian)
SunOS 5.9 SPARC (QEMU)
Rhapsody DR2 (86Box)
NeXTSTEP 3.3 (Previous)
Mac OS 8.1 (Basilisk II)
Workbench 1.3 (Amiberry)