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Illumos - Wikipedia

apparently OpenSolaris lives on! As illumos en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumos

**illumos**
An actual Unix system that's a fork of the final OpenSolaris release. Analagous to Linux in that it's a core ecosystem that distros like OmniOS and OpenIndiana are built around.

#Unix #Solaris #Illumos #OS

I remember that, and by Sainsbury's always struck me as being in the wrong place - a constrained site, poorly connected, and too close to the existing station so it duplicates access for a lot of people. A bit further out, by Fulbourn Tesco, offers better bus links and expands the catchment.

MSFT and Apple spend billions on building Windows and MacOS! Yet, their OSs are unusable, bloated and uncontrollable freaks!

Long live open-source!

#illumos #opensolaris

Of course, this was back in a time when people had actually used Unix.

You can still use Unix, sort of, for nothing. Install an illumos distro. That's should be very, very roughly System V Release 4.

Not to mention the fact that it’s Linux that usually borrows from innovations that the BSD and Solaris & Illumos communities created, for decades, not the other way around.

I might have a fascination with retro OSes like Tribblix, *BSD, or AIX. I might put vim-like keybindings on everything. I might be enthralled by programming for COM+, AWT, and straight x86 assembly. I might use a tiling WM.

But let’s clear one thing up: I will never, EVER switch to Dvorak. Ever.

Hm, that might not work, the Ultra 1 had support ripped out a long time ago - the UltraSPARC-I cpu was never supported in 64-bit mode as I recall (although the E variant at least has a supported network card).

Tribblix 0m37 now available for download

www.tribblix.org/download.html

If the Transport Secretary won’t fund essential upgrades, then the Chancellor must give regional tiers new revenue-raising powers Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander MP once again refrained from even mentioning Ely Junction in her statement to the Commons. Furthermore there is nothing in the press release about this heavily-l…

NEW BLOGPOST: “If the Transport Secretary won’t fund essential upgrades, then the Chancellor must give regional tiers new revenue-raising powers” cambridgetownowl.com/2025/07/08/i...

If the Transport Secretary won’t fund essential upgrades, then the Chancellor must give regional tiers new revenue-raising powers Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander MP once again refrained from even mentioning Ely Junction in her statement to the Commons. Furthermore there is nothing in the press release about this heavily-l…

NEW BLOGPOST: "If the Transport Secretary won’t fund essential upgrades, then the Chancellor must give regional tiers new revenue-raising powers" cambridgetownowl.com/2025/07/08/i...

Was at Cambridge Carbon Footprint’s retrofit pilot hearing about installing rainwater harvesting systems in Coleridge, Cambridge earlier.

White text on a pink background: Local drivers lose hours to congestion. Vote for these ways to reclaim your time: Affordable buses for all; Better walking, wheeling and cycling; Well-maintained roads and paths; Clean air and safe streets around schools; Transport fit for a changing region. Vote for life-changing transport on 1 May.

A recent report showed that drivers in Cambridge lose an average of 52 hours to congestion each year.

Vote for local election candidates on 1 May who will save time and cut queues through better sustainable transport.

cambstravelalliance.org/vote/

I helped write a new post for Transition Cambridge.

The environmental cost of AI:

transitioncambridgemedia.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

Cheap single bus tickets considered harmful?

petertribble.blogspot.com/2025/03/chea...

Yes, it’s an area that I have earmarked for a deep dive one day. Oxide using it for their hypervisor and the people associated with the illumos / Solaris sphere signal to me that it absolutely should not be written off.

Is all this thing called AI worthwhile?

ptribble.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-a...

So if anyone's interested in having a look at the First Release Candidate of JDK24 on Solaris 11.4 (x86), here you go:

pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/inte...

(If on illumos, use distro packages.)

One of the plans for OpenJDK is to deprecate and remove the 32-bit x86 port.

openjdk.org/jeps/501

It turns out that OpenJDK on illumos/Solaris still has remnants. None of this has worked or been compiled in so long (8u20), I'm going to completely strip any 32-bit code out of my Solaris port.

Tribblix has a nice CDE option, too, for that retro Solaris flair.

kinda want to mess around with illumos, it's come up a few times lately

true... to tribblix i go

And did I mention for you #illumos folks that it's running in a native zone? No need for a VM! (no edit button here, huh?)

This pastel shows Green Street in Cambridge UK, looking in the direction of Sidney Sussex college. This one is sold.

Pastel showing King's Parade (where the light is streaming across). That is part of King's College across the street.

This pastel shows a path in the gardens of Pembroke College, Cambridge

This pastel shows an evening view of the Pitt Building in Cambridge.

Here's a selection of pastels of Cambridge themes. I'll use alt text to give further information about each one. None of them are recent. The first one is sold. #pastel #pastelpainting #Cambridge

Golden autumnal scene with trees and leaves reflected in a stream.

Autumn in Cambridge keeps getting better and better!

Today in fun wild unix things: OmniOS (SunOS/Illumos distribution):

The kernel is 64bit, half of the OS tools are 32bit, the other half is 64bit, getconf LONG_BIT returns 32, gcc builds 64bit binaries, and uname -m return i86pc.

Algunas distros de Illumos son DiLOS, NexentaStor, OmniOS, OpenIndiana, SmartOS, Tribblix (recomendado por el estilo retro), v9os para SPARC, XTreamOS (para desarrollos en la nube), Dyson (híbrido de Illumos y Debian).