Advanced #Programming in the #UNIX Environment

The #UFS File System (from the -- by now old -- "#Solaris Internals" book)

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Does anyone have Sun patches 107235-01 (at Y2K fix) and 107436-01 (fsck fix for large FSes) for Interactive Unix 4.1.1?

They're from around April 1999 and may be on a Sun Patches CD from around that time.

Sadly they're not on Archive.org, or the ZX[1] and ICM[2] mirrors of Sun's ~2006 FTP.

[1]: ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.…
[2]: ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/patches/
#retrocomputing #OldUNIX #UNIX #ClassicUNIX #Sun #Solaris

Boosts and shares appreciated!

Before moving to greener (and higher-paying 🤑) pastures, one of my two big "technical assistant" projects for #Comcast #Cellular was upgrading the engineers' Sun #Unix workstations from the #BSD-based #SunOS 4 to #SVR4-based SunOS 5 (#Solaris 2), and from #NIS / #YellowPages to NIS+.

In hindsight, it was a bad idea to make both changes at once, but I was a kid entranced by novelty and not yet very considerate of my users during the inevitable downtimes. (3/6)

This is your occasional reminder that #Oracle is where open platforms go to die: theregister.com/2023/07/24/ora…

#Java #Linux #MySQL #Solaris

Oracle's revised Java licensing terms 2-5x more expensive for most orgs

One in five users can expect an audit in the next three years

^{Lindsay Clark (The Register)}