Linux on a Sun Blade 2500?

I am trying to find a source to help me get Linux on a Sun Blade 2500 I have. I am new to the Linux world, but as far as I can tell it is the only software that I can load on a Sun system to use as for things like web browsing and so on like on an Intel based PC with Windows on it. I tried down

Time for Linux is "Lining up"

"At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890. Where will you be at this momentous second?" - from Bell Labs This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST (1531 and 30 seconds PST). Now if there was any reason to fear Friday the 13th, I think this is it. T

Re: Time for Linux is "Lining up"

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: > "At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890. > Where will you be at this momentous second?" - from Bell Labs > > This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST (1531 and > 30 seconds PST). > A lit

Re: Time for Linux is "Lining up"

Greg, Martha's has WiFi, so we can hook up to a time server. ...this will be useful for the 13th! Thanks, md -- Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: mad...@li.org 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WW

Stop! Unix Time

Jon sent gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org a message on Facebook. Y2K in the Unix Erawhere will your computer be? To reply to this message, follow the link below: http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=593062024&k=45A66V5X44ZM5AAFUD6YSQ ___ gnhlug-discuss m

Re: Time for Linux is "Lining up"

> From: "Jon 'maddog' Hall" > Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:15:18 -0500 > Cc: Henry Hall > "At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890. > Where will you be at this momentous second?" - from Bell Labs > > This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST (1531

UNIX vs Unix (was: Time for Linux)

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: > ... note that I spelled UNIX in all capital letters, as it should be ... Oh, boy. Time for a lame name flame game! :) "Dennis Ritchie says that the 'UNIX' spelling originally happened in CACM's 1974 paper _The UNIX Time-Sharing Sys

Re: Time for Linux is "Lining up"

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: > This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST (1531 and > 30 seconds PST). That's 6:31 PM EST, for the 24-hour challenged. :) >=>Martha's Exchange Restaurant in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA<= > Who will join me as we

Re: Linux on a Sun Blade 2500?

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Thomas Coughlin wrote: > I am trying to find a source to help me get Linux on a Sun Blade 2500 I > have. I haven't touched Linux on Sun/SPARC in several years, but I will give it a shot. > I am new to the Linux world, but as far as I can tell it is the only > s

FREE - IBM CDPD Cellular Modem (P/N 04H7387)

Offered is an IBM CDPD Cellular Modem (P/N 04H7387) PCMCIA adapter with two anntenna+cable assemblies with mounting brackets. Believed to be working when put into storage back in 2004 but the batteries (four AA in each antenna module) leaked a bit so the condition of the two anntenna modules (afte

Re: UNIX vs Unix (was: Time for Linux)

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > Later, dmr tried to get the > spelling changed to 'Unix' in a couple of Bell Labs papers, on the > grounds that the word is not acronymic. He failed, which likely would be due to Bell Trademark lawyers - you have to use it only the way you tr

Re: Stop! Unix Time

Jon Maddog Hall wrote: > facebook > Jon Maddog Hall > 4:03am Feb 1st > > Stop! Unix Time > To gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > > Y2K in the Unix Erawhere will your computer be? > > Jon has shared an event with you. To view the event or to reply to the > message, follow this link: > >

Re: Linux on a Sun Blade 2500?

My experience over the years has been that, although there existing Linux for Sparc, there is not that great of a developer or support community around it. If you just want to reinstall and have a usable Sun system, I would highly recommend just reinstalling it with a new Solaris install. Solaris

Re: UNIX vs Unix (was: Time for Linux)

>we were intoxicated by being able to produce small caps. I think someone was intoxicated"small caps"hmmm. Well, since Ben rose to the bait. Whether or not Dennis wanted to change it, "UNIX(R)" as registered by the Open Group, holder of the standard, the brand and the trademark, is "

Boston time_t party Re: Stop! Unix Time

What - time_t party when - 1234567890 ET Fri Feb 13 18:31:30 2009 UT Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 2009 Where - Westin Boston WaterfrontLobby Bar Why there - Boskone SF Convention Why am i

Re: Linux on a Sun Blade 2500?

I have a number of blade 2000 and 2500s runnining Solaris 10 just fine. The "java desktop" is actually a recent gnome with evolution, pidgen, acrobat, firefox, etc You're not going to find a sparc linux that's as up to date. Solaris 10 10/08 is your best bet. OpenSolaris is also good if it's av

Re: Boston time_t party Re: Stop! Unix Time

Bill, Thanks for the pointer to the Boston event and the updates to the "Perl clock". Your link to the Boskone SF Convention was broken, it should have been: http://www.nesfa.org/Boskone/ for those interested in going to that. I prefer a smaller group, perhaps a bit quieter, with less travel f

Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time)

> Facebook tells me I need to sign up to use their service. I'm not > really thrilled with the idea Me, neither - Facebook would seem to be a poor choice as a venue for conducting GNHLUG business as (it seems to me that) Facebook is not really in keeping with much of what the GNHLUG is about:

Re: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time)

*"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Buckminster Fuller * I'm tired of hearing people in the free software community whine about Facebook. There are a lot of programmers on this list. If you f

Re: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time)

>Facebook would seem to be a poor choice as a venue for >conducting GNHLUG business Who was advocating the use of Facebook for GNHLUG business? It just so happens that Facebook was where I first noticed the issue of the UNIX time event coming up, and I forwarded that link in case others might be

Re: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time)

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Michael ODonnell < michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > Facebook tells me I need to sign up to use their service. I'm not > > really thrilled with the idea > > > Me, neither - Facebook would seem to be a poor choice as a venue for > conducting GNHLUG busine

Re: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time)

> Me, neither - Facebook would seem to be a poor choice as a venue for > conducting GNHLUG business as (it seems to me that) Facebook is not > really in keeping with much of what the GNHLUG is about: > > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/4413483/Network

Suqashing Facebook (WAS: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time))

> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:46:31 -0500 > From: Arc Riley > I'm tired of hearing people in the free software community whine about > Facebook. There are a lot of programmers on this list. If you feel > passionately enough about this to complain then let's build an alternative. I haven't been wh

Re: Suqashing Facebook (WAS: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time))

That's hilarious! But jokes about PHP scripts and internet appliances aside, there *is* a real solution to this that's already accepted by the community at large. It's called XMPP - eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol. Thanks to Google and Livejournal there's already a huge userbase. It'