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Around 2000 or so, I used to work in tech support for a software company who had like 5000 Windows-based customers and 5 running Solaris. My boss chose me to learn Solaris when the previous "expert" left. I bought this book and started hacking. Good times!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I had a copy of that book to, also bought it circa year 2000.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

In high school I had Sun sparc 5 And then an ultra 60, Solaris was a pretty sweet OS back in the day

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

How did you get a Sun Sparc 5 and Ultra 60 as a high school student? You were able to get them used from a college that had recently upgraded or something?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Oh I remember this one, nice find.

[–] [email protected] 129 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago

This is the only one I know.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hahaha. And they say the internet is only for porn.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (7 children)

That is only one corner of it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Share your O'Reilly tomes here.

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