[HECnet] PyDECnet setup

[Brian Hechinger]

I've run OpenIndiana, OmniOS (a favorite of mine) and SmartOS/Triton. 
It's all so lovely thanks to people like Bryan Cantrill.

-brian

On 18/11/21 22:50, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>> On Nov 18, 2021, at 5:39 PM, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
>>
>> Once Oracle took over Solaris was a dead, useless product for a very small subset of people. Anyone who wasn't in the habit of paying Oracle obscene amounts of money (I still don't understand why people do that) dropped that shit like it was hot.
> OpenIndiana rocks … running as my file server among other things for many years now. There was a DECnet thing for some ancient version of SunOS too, haven’t been able to find it.
>
> /s.
>> -brian
>>
>>> On 18/11/21 18:38, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>>> On 11/18/21 1:05 PM, August Treubig wrote:
>>>> Yes,  “more correctly”, Solaris 2.x is System V.  Then after about 2.6, they threw away the 2. Part. Then once the evil Oracle grabbed on, it all went into the dumpster.
>>>    Well, also, not quite.  It's still a product, if only barely.
>>>
>>>    But commercial suitware is irrelevant.  The real meat lives on in Illumos/SmartOS/etc.
>>>
>>>            -Dave
>>>