The best part about retro computing is the idea that you’ll save some poor system from being scrapped and revive it to a ...

A: This is a common question that doesn’t have an easy answer. Understanding the distinction between interfaces, implementations, and behaviors is fundamental and it’s as good a starting point as any.

I'm thinking of trying to install the Solaris 2.6 X server on my Sparcstation 5, which is running Solaris 8. Why would I want to do such a daft thing? I've found this oddball framebuffer which is very ...

Sockets provide an interface into the kernel’s networking protocols by allowing programmers to create a communication endpoint in the form of a file descriptor, and by binding a name to the file ...

I'm having a problem hardening a solaris server here at work, running Solaris 2.6. I can't for the life of me find what service is opening port 5001. IANA lists it as commplex-link, but I find nothing ...

Paul, you need a fact checker. You *drastically* overstate the security record of Solaris. You wrote: Like any Unix, Solaris has had hundreds of vulnerabilities exposed and fixed, but there have been ...