On September 15, 2026 3:13:38 PM EDT, Dennis Clarke <dclarke%blastwave.org@localhost> wrote:
I can relate to that, however sadly Larry and his Oracle folks have had
such a terrible effect that running Solaris is a moral sin. I also had
a similar stack of hardware and none of it would run much of anything
of use anymore. I tossed all of it out for recycle. Disposal. All of it
with the exception of a single "new" SPARC S7-2 server. It is a 128-core
wonder beast with 256G of memory. Sadly it can only run Solaris 11.4 and
my attempts with NetBSD have all failed.
This comes across as somewhat narrow minded.
Not the bit about Larry, that's accurate.
But if you really struggled to find an enthusiastic
buyer for unique or interesting vintage hardware,
I can't help but think you could have looked a
little bit harder.