Through Thorns to the Sun: Cozy UNIX
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This article is a long retrospective on Sun Microsystems, Solaris, UNIX, and the software ecosystem around them. It explains the evolution from SunOS to Solaris, the role of BSD and System V, and the desktop environments and utilities that shaped Sun systems in the 1990s. It also covers installation, networking, package management, NIS/NIS+, AutoFS, and OpenWindows/CDE usage. The piece includes practical nostalgia around running Solaris on SPARC hardware and using software like Netscape Communicator and MAE. Overall, it serves as a historical and technical overview rather than a current company announcement.
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