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Samson<p>Навіщо Спартц говорить про потребу здачі територій</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlV10pGBAX0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=rlV10pGBAX</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.kyiv.dcomm.net.ua/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://social.kyiv.dcomm.net.ua/tags/RussiaIsATerroristState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussiaIsATerroristState</span></a> <a href="https://social.kyiv.dcomm.net.ua/tags/RussiaUkraineWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussiaUkraineWar</span></a> <a href="https://social.kyiv.dcomm.net.ua/tags/UkraineWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UkraineWar</span></a> <a href="https://social.kyiv.dcomm.net.ua/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://social.kyiv.dcomm.net.ua/tags/rusa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rusa</span></a> <a href="https://social.kyiv.dcomm.net.ua/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a></p>
Ehay2k<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mendeddrum.org/@fanf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fanf</span></a></span> </p><p>Oh. I'm feeling so very old.😢.</p><p>I remember setting up a 750 MB mirrored set of drives on a Sun 4/260 to run a "large" Oracle DB. That was more storage than the entire set of Wang VS systems we were replacing. </p><p>We were told we would NEVER need that much storage.<br>😂😂😂😂😂</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WangVS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WangVS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oracle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sunmicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sunmicrosystems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a></p>
bg nerilex<p>Ich habe gerade ein paar <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retro</span></a> bzw. <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/vintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintage</span></a> Computer abzugeben.</p><p>Folgenden Maschinen suchen ein neues Zuhause:</p><p> * <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sun</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a> station IPC<br> * Sun Ultra 5 (64 bit sparc)<br> * HP 712/60 (gecko <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PARISC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PARISC</span></a>)<br> * <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/MicroVAX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroVAX</span></a> II (BA123)</p><p>Die Geräte müssten in Bochum abgeholt werden.</p><p>Von der <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VAX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VAX</span></a> habe ich gerade noch keine Bilder, da die noch im Keller sitzt.</p><p>Mir genügt es, wenn die Maschinen ein liebevolles Zuhause finden, und nicht dem Elektroschrott anheim fallen müssen.</p><p>🔄 Boosts welcome</p>
Несерьёзный Выдумщик<p>Общеобразовательное о том, какие процессоры могут быть по архитектуре. С экскурсом в историю развития.<br>«Как Intel создал ARM, ARM похоронил MIPS, на очереди X86?» На нескольких видео-хостингах: </p><ul><li><p><a href="https://rutube.ru/video/bd42ae858d9fec2ea3bdc5ff70ddf28f/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rutube.ru/video/bd42ae858d9fec2ea3bdc5ff70ddf28f/</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://dzen.ru/video/watch/67e30b33a68eb647c136e44f" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dzen.ru/video/watch/67e30b33a68eb647c136e44f</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbKQJ9W5dmo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbKQJ9W5dmo</a></p></li></ul><p>Как «яблоко» <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/apple" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apple</a> и «жёлудь» <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/acorn" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Acorn</a> объединившись создали ARM — Advanced RISC Machines в 1990-м, хотя в оригинале это было Acorn RISC Machine с 1985-м года.</p><p>Первый релиз на ARM6 состоялся в 1992-м году и был это КПК — Apple Newton PDA на базе процессора ARM610.</p><p>Для получения именно десктопного процессора <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/powerpc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerPC</a> эта же самая Apple с 1991 года была в альянсе с <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/ibm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBM</a> и <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/motorola" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Motorola</a> работавшими над <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/risc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RISC</a> процессором архитектуры Power. В результате работы альянса над этой архитектурой стало семейство PowerPC процессоров.</p><p>В это время у Sun Microsystems было семейство SPARC — тоже на базе RISC, ставшее процессорами и для рабочих станций и для серверов. Первые системы <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/sunmicrosystems" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SunMicrosystems</a> на процессорах <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/sparc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SPARC</a> начали поставляться в 1987 году и на 1989 год были дешевле Intel 80386 процессора.</p><p>Кстати, именно серверные RISC-процессоры уже стали 64-х разрядными в реальных машинах, когда <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/x86" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#x86</a> только планировали выбираться из 32-х разрядности.</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/hardware" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hardware</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/cpu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CPU</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/процессоры" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#процессоры</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/intel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intel</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/arm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ARM</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/mips" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MIPS</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/x86" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#x86</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/cisc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CISC</a> <span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://mastodon.social/@russian_mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>russian_mastodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://lor.sh/@ru" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ru</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://3zi.ru/@Russia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Russia</span></a></span></p>
Несерьёзный Выдумщик<p><span>Общеобразовательное о том, какие процессоры могут быть по архитектуре. С экскурсом в историю развития.<br>«Как Intel создал ARM, ARM похоронил MIPS, на очереди X86?» На нескольких видео-хостингах: <br><br>• </span><a href="https://rutube.ru/video/bd42ae858d9fec2ea3bdc5ff70ddf28f/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rutube.ru/video/bd42ae858d9fec2ea3bdc5ff70ddf28f/</a><span><br>• </span><a href="https://dzen.ru/video/watch/67e30b33a68eb647c136e44f" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dzen.ru/video/watch/67e30b33a68eb647c136e44f</a><span><br>• </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbKQJ9W5dmo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbKQJ9W5dmo</a><span><br><br>Как «яблоко» </span><a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/Apple" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apple</a> и «жёлудь» <a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/Acorn" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Acorn</a><span> объединившись создали ARM — Advanced RISC Machines в 1990-м, хотя в оригинале это было Acorn RISC Machine с 1985-м года.<br><br>Первый релиз на ARM6 состоялся в 1992-м году и был это КПК — Apple Newton PDA на базе процессора ARM610.<br><br>Для получения именно десктопного процессора </span><a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/PowerPC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerPC</a> эта же самая Apple с 1991 года была в альянсе с <a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/IBM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBM</a> и <a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/Motorola" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Motorola</a> работавшими над <a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/RISC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RISC</a><span> процессором архитектуры Power. В результате работы альянса над этой архитектурой стало семейство PowerPC процессоров.<br><br>В это время у Sun Microsystems было семейство SPARC — тоже на базе RISC, ставшее процессорами и для рабочих станций и для серверов. Первые системы </span><a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/SunMicrosystems" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SunMicrosystems</a> на процессорах <a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/SPARC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SPARC</a><span> начали поставляться в 1987 году и на 1989 год были дешевле Intel 80386 процессора.<br><br>Кстати, именно серверные RISC-процессоры уже стали 64-х разрядными в реальных машинах, когда </span><a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/x86" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#x86</a><span> только планировали выбираться из 32-х разрядности.<br><br></span><a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/hardware" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hardware</a> <a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/CPU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CPU</a> <a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/процессоры" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#процессоры</a> <a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/intel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intel</a> <a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/ARM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ARM</a> <a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/MIPS" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MIPS</a> <a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/x86" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#x86</a> <a href="https://shitpost.poridge.club/tags/CISC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CISC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@russian_mastodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@russian_mastodon@mastodon.social</a> <a href="https://lor.sh/@ru" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ru@lor.sh</a> <a href="https://3zi.ru/@Russia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Russia@3zi.ru</a></p>
Peter Tribble<p>If you're running Tribblix on SPARC, upgrades to m32 are now available.</p><p><a href="http://tribblix.org/relnotes.html#m32-sparc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">tribblix.org/relnotes.html#m32</span><span class="invisible">-sparc</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tribblix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tribblix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a></p>
Iggi<p>Remember if you have one of the elderly <a href="https://mastodontech.de/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sun</span></a> <a href="https://mastodontech.de/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a> systems and the OBP asks for a pwd. Boot into OBP then remove the idprom (THEN press n) and you can setenv security-mode none .. My SS5 with S24 and <a href="https://mastodontech.de/tags/openstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openstep</span></a> 4.2 SPARC. As beautiful as my <a href="https://mastodontech.de/tags/amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amiga</span></a> 3000 pizzabox</p>
Marcel Hofstetter<p>Sun/Oracle SPARC T8-1 Server<br>The latest addition to our JomaSoft <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/VDCF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VDCF</span></a> Solaris Lab and SPARC Cloud.<br><a href="https://www.jomasoft.ch/vdcf/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">jomasoft.ch/vdcf/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/rocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rocks</span></a></p>
Bill Taroli :neurodiversity:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@wendynather" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wendynather</span></a></span> SPARC workstations caused some serious trauma! I wonder if therapists specialize in that…</p><p>Seriously, though, I do have dreams like that sometimes. Can’t move. Can’t scream. Can’t stop. Thankfully I have a decent dose of other ones to make up for them. </p><p><a href="https://federate.social/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sun</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/OpenBoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBoot</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/OBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OBP</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/nightmare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nightmare</span></a></p>
Marcel Hofstetter<p>Just blogged "Oracle Systems TechDay 13.05.2025 in Prague"</p><p><a href="https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2025/03/oracle-systems-techday-13052025-in.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">25/03/oracle-systems-techday-13052025-in.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oracle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/techday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/server" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>server</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solaris</span></a></p>
Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd<p>Anyone here familiar with SPARC binutils internals? I'm having a rather odd case where the same instruction (and same binary sequence) gets interpreted differently depending on who compiles it :cirnothinking: </p><p>Say, I have this `decode.s` file containing the following line:<br>decode: addxccc %g0, %g0, %g0</p><p>One VIS3 instruction, very simple. Then assemble it with both gcc and clang:<br>gcc -mcpu=niagara4 -c decode.s -o decode-gcc.o<br>clang -mcpu=niagara4 -c decode.s -o decode-clang.o</p><p>And now, if I run objdump on the files, the results are different:<br>decode-clang.o: file format elf64-sparc</p><p>Disassembly of section .text:</p><p>0000000000000000 &lt;decode&gt;:<br> 0: 81 b0 02 60 unknown</p><p>Compare with GCC's:<br>decode-gcc.o: file format elf64-sparc</p><p>Disassembly of section .text:</p><p>0000000000000000 &lt;decode&gt;:<br> 0: 81 b0 02 60 addxccc %g0, %g0, %g0</p><p>In both cases the binary stream is the same, but why does objdump decodes it as "unknown" with the clang-built file?</p><p>Edit: found it, seems like GCC sets something in the attribute section:</p><p>Attribute Section: gnu<br>File Attributes<br> Tag_GNU_Sparc_HWCAPS: vis3</p><p>Though as far as I can tell other than odd objump output it doesn't seem to affect binary execution, etc.</p><p><a href="https://uwu.social/tags/AskFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskFedi</span></a> <a href="https://uwu.social/tags/Binutils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Binutils</span></a> <a href="https://uwu.social/tags/GCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCC</span></a> <a href="https://uwu.social/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a></p>
Retro Markus 🇩🇰🇩🇪<p>"new" SunRay 170 - Back in Action</p><p><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sun</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/sunray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sunray</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a></p>
George Macgregor<p>ICYMI, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gedankenstuecke</span></a></span> published an interesting blog post about SPARC's 'preemptive obedience' (or Vorauseilender Gehorsam), in the face of the Trump presidential directive to erase any mention of <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diversity</span></a>, <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/equity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>equity</span></a> + <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inclusion</span></a> (DEI) (and withdraw funding) from publicly funded bodies. Check it out -- but be prepared for disappointment. 😢 </p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/113979312729807071" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scholar.social/@gedankenstueck</span><span class="invisible">e/113979312729807071</span></a></p><p><a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/OpenResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenResearch</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a></p>
George Macgregor<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gedankenstuecke</span></a></span> </p><p>Excellent blog post, Bastian -- thank you very much for drawing it to my attention. "Vorauseilender Gehorsam" -- what a useful concept!</p><p>You used the words 'disheartening', 'bleak', 'infuriating' about <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sparc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sparc</span></a></span>. These chime with me too. 'Disappointing' would be another.</p><p>At least we have <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@SPARC_Europe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SPARC_Europe</span></a></span> which remains committed to DEI, as well as committed to defending openness in the "face of political and technological developments". </p><p><a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/OpenResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenResearch</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a></p>
Kernel Comments<p>/* Gee george, I wonder why Sun is so hush hush about this hardware bug… really braindamage stuff going on here. […] Welcome to a world where your vendor tells you to, "apply this kernel patch" instead of "sorry for the broken hardware, send it back and we'll give you properly functioning parts" */</p><p><a href="https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.13.1/source/arch/sparc/mm/srmmu.c#L1186-L1202" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.13</span><span class="invisible">.1/source/arch/sparc/mm/srmmu.c#L1186-L1202</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/kernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kernel</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sun</span></a></p>
George Macgregor<p>A new year, and a new strategy launched by SPARC....</p><p>SPARC Europe’s Strategy 2025-2028 <a href="https://sparceurope.org/who-we-are/about-us/our-strategy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sparceurope.org/who-we-are/abo</span><span class="invisible">ut-us/our-strategy/</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/SPARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SPARC</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/OpenResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenResearch</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/OpenEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenEducation</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/OER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OER</span></a> <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/OpenData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenData</span></a></p>
Budsofstone<p>So if I wanted to learn <a href="https://computerfairi.es/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a> <a href="https://computerfairi.es/tags/assembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assembly</span></a> how insane would that be?</p>
Volker A. Brandt :meckenheim:<p>During our last FRAOSUG meeting, klausz has uploaded the latest boot image for OpenIndiana on SPARC: Get it here <a href="https://dlc.openindiana.aurora-opencloud.org/SPARC/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dlc.openindiana.aurora-openclo</span><span class="invisible">ud.org/SPARC/</span></a> and check it out on your SPARC machine! <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/fraosug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fraosug</span></a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/openindiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openindiana</span></a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a></p>
Volker A. Brandt :meckenheim:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ptribble" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ptribble</span></a></span> Like your shell prompt! <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/tribblix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tribblix</span></a></p>
joany<p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/netbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>netbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sun</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ultrasparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ultrasparc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ultra5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ultra5</span></a></p><p>Had to pull my IDE&lt;&gt;SATA and IDE CDROM<br>Got the debug promt if the CDROM was attached</p><p>Looks like I am ready for <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/SunDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SunDay</span></a></p>