All of which fall apart(the watch and the TV), implode(the television), and/or are thrown away (all of those due to quality) by the time you get to the airport on the way back.
I guess the problem in the end is that so many Americans are fond of driving cars with such poor fuel economy. Two weeks ago I did a 600 mile road trip, we got 49.8 mpg out of a 1.6l Ford Focus. I have personally seen Americans claiming that 25mpg is very good mileage... I know the gallon is smaller in the USA (3.8l instead of 4.5l), but even that "good mileage" is rubbish by European standards.
Maybe they dont want to drive cars that amount to being not much larger than coffins - before they're crushed by that semi they eventually run into on the crowded highway. I'll take a 3.8l powered car from GM any day with some actual performance in it versus something that just is merely "fuel efficient". A road trip for some might just be getting there, but there is a very large segment that will not give up tons in performance just to obtain efficiency.
The only thing I'd do with that is to make sure I last long enough so that I get to experience the first vestiges of economic prosperity 100-200 years later that finally comes to the present day Rust Belt. The second would be to make sure no transition ever interferes with that prosperity for the longest possible time.
Well, doubly so if you live in the Midwest, or triply so if you live in Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania or about anywhere similar until first-class education is a given even at the university level.
That all but explains what's keeping things going, with supposedly good numbers. Add the gutting of the Middle-class, the creation of an area that has become low-income, low opportunity for the majority - where populist measures(read: universally non-competitive admissions/fully paid financing to any university in exchange for globalization) may end up being quite necessary to fix a major problem. That problem being the non-existence of the signs of a good economy - but all the signs of one being dismantled with no workable revitalization plan for the displaced.
(To preempt some people - this excludes Honda, Toyota, and the other "Foreign Manufactured, US Assembled" manufacturers if you're going to talk about them contributing anything useful)
The car initiative is what excites me most really. There is no good scientific/manufacturing reason that I know of that we can't be driving around in affordable hybrid/completely petrol devoid cars. It really does seem to be a reluctance based on the huge oil cartels.
So if Google, with its huge wealth, can kick start the availability of cars that are cheaper to run and far better for the environment, how can there not be a market?
Unfortunately they're going to have to be making a drop-in replacement for some of the finer Detroit built cars (hint:Mid 1980's/Early 1990's Big Three US domestics onward for a small target) already out on the road before I see any interest. Then the deal breaker is if the performance isnt equivalent to engine that's been replaced, from those 4cyl cars that could definitely use the boost up to the highend vehicles that have plenty of room under the hood and could still be made to perform the same.
That would be proof of how good of a job they could do, and not be something too large of a job to do to prove how well they could fix that problem instead of creating another one. The cars exist, and people already have them - just that this would be small enough of a target to move people in the right direction while not throwing out what works.
They're Stanfordites - somehow they dont know how to do it without finding some very exclusionist way to do it.
If they'd want to even get to being anywhere close to being out of that hole as well as strictly following "Do No Evil", they ought to look at history and see what NCR did before they sold everything off. That means they'd have to go back and think "How can it be done without exclusionism and bring in profits?". Even in this era, it still can be done. This time it wouldnt be inward facing such as NCR did, but a outward facing, non-exclusionist group.
Use a provisional ballot. With Ohio and other states going with these machines, if there is an option to not go Diebold, I'm taking it. At least I know that it's just a bit harder to tamper without there being some evidence for it.
More accurate headline: "Senate Committee Republicans Vote Bush as Emperor Nixon II"
Unfortunately Nixon would have had a problem with Alito, Roberts, Bolton, Condolezza Rice (potentially due to Stanford's exclusivity), Elaine Chao (Secretary of [Offshoring] Labor, educated by Harvard), Samuel Bodman(Secretary of Energy, educated by MIT), Michael Chertoff (DHS, educated by Harvard), and potentially others. Miers would have been a candidate promoted in good faith and not as a decoy.
While that and some other things would have not changed, they would probably be ideologically near opposite from each other, political power and personal connections being their only solid links.
When the closed up (in a worse degree) service known as Orkut that uses the euphemism of "Trusted Friends" to soften up the word elitism opens up and is otherwise unaltered. Facebook - it's known that it could be open.
I find it kinda weird... considering that a lot of companies say it's too burdensome to even bother checking to make sure someone's in the country legally.
They do, they just score Citizenship by Birth as the lowest possible value.
...what else other than continuous economic, political or criminal issues in the last 30 years (or combinations thereof) to light up a big sign that says "Leave Ohio if you can"?
Man, they can arrest you for anything anymore in Ohio. Yes, I live there. Mind that Ohio doesnt have much to say about being legitimate or prosperous- if you know Ohio enough, just follow the money. Some mind bending tricks such as McGee's Economic Blunder to prevent the inevitable suburbian flight, things like Diebold, or NCR's great exit in the 1990's.
Criminal/civil offenses are sort of the final way to make money around here when job departure is constant and replacements are usually lower income if at all.
I presume that you already are familiar with some of Ohio's finest after encountering town sized speed traps, or "25mph here, but only for under a mile and 45mph on each side" zones. Become a mayor of a small town, set your speed traps, have a guaranteed revenue stream, then get a nice shiny new Interceptor for the law enforcement to show for a one stoplight town.
The only solution is to get rid of political parties or get a third party Really. Not. Happening. (unless you want to get rid of Ohio entirely or reform it massively)
Given how 2 major cities are on the bottom ten lists for average income (Dayton for its mid-sized- ~26k average, Cleveland on large sized- ~24.5k average) and with places such as Southeast Ohio being hit even harder, gaining economic prosperity always seems to have put political debate on the backburner since 1980. You arent going to get anything of any true political change in a state that has seen decline for nearly the past 30 years.
The major downside to this program is that the only real opportunities that exist in matters of guaranteed high-income jobs are with government contractors, or the financial sector- the rest has left or is leaving. This new regulation is unfortunately not the kind we need but what usually comes around here - and it'd probably make a few people unable to get a clearance of any kind.
In short, Ohio continually redefines new lows in about everything possible in the political, economic, and criminal subjects at the same time, it may require massive changes in the very least to repair the recent damage, and may need to reform education in painful ways (probably one of the places where there would be an actual need to just bite the bullet and just guarantee tuition and admission to anywhere on some non-merit, residence basis, along with career assistance) just to repair all the 25+ straight years of economic and political disasters.
That would be ideal, but remember that the law generally doesn't apply to the rich and powerful
One problem with that one - a lot of the rich and powerful already *left* Ohio, and what's left are the financially and/or ethically challenged. With at least 2 cities on the bottom 10 average income lists and declining populations, it's no surprise you can pass anything from speedtrap creation, house companies like Diebold (who will gladly secure your money but not your vote) and do things like this.
The upside is that a LOT of stuff is cheaper around here, but only if you can find a job that wont be laid off(GM/Ford) or offshored(the entire Columbus financial "district" that's all around it).
Sun has done some questionable things, but those aren't it. Their handling of sun4m and hardware thereof in not-so OpenSolaris 10 seems to be a bit (more?) questionable given that there was a workable, buildable version of it- and I doubt svn goes back 3-4+ years to s10_22. It'd at least be better to have them put it back in, along with all the hardware eol'ed along the way(and fully documented). Then Sun can just close the book on that platform for good once there is something of a "reference build" that works as well as the rest (versus something that was crippled out of spite - dtrace is forgiven here, and I'd think you could dig up s10_22, and enough of else was dropped to get about any sun4m class system running, bmc).
Anything much earlier than sun4c/d/m seems to not have much of an installbase, or mass amounts of documentation missing on critical points of hardware(console, network, storage). Ironic that for now that Sun *doesnt* want you to have your hardware and software match, even when there is a perfect opportunity to do it.
Very true. And that is why it will be only a matter of time before the "blogosphere" becomes just as ruthless and corrupt as the power structures it presently confronts. Soon the internets will be so infested with bought-and-paid-for astroturfers that it will be impossible to discriminate between honest opinion and slimy propaganda. The line between the two will blur into a fine pink mist.
This reminds me of a well known right wing Echo Chamber. That, and the entire Pajamas Media network make The Rolling Swinebucket's slashvertisment articles seem tame.
You can roll back to a build 22 via the SVN history. Shouldn't be too hard. That presumes that s10_22 has enough of a history to exist - if it does, and it's buildable and works, you'd be right. However, I wont be holding my breath of it existing thanks to Sun.
FWIW, there is talk about reinstating sun4m class systems. Would you be able to point to a more recent discussion, since Google is pointing to a lot of talk in 2005, but not much in 2006 outside of slashdot. This would have to be undone, but if s10_22 could be pulled as you said, there might be some hope. Even later builds than s10_22 carry old bits in.
1.3 Lenovo - The lowest score of all companies. 7 Dell - Points lost for not yet having models without the worst chemicals. Strong support for takeback.
Given the origin of some of the parts and some of the practices of their host country, that wasnt a surprise. Dell, however has to have a good policy given the throwaway quality of their post-offshoring era machines.
No thanks to Greenpeace, I value quality a lot more than how (ecologically)green a company is.
It's bad enough seeing scumbag trustfund kiddies flaunting their inherited wealth by doing nothing but ski or drive their Lamborghinis around all day, but paying $6,000 for a scrap of cardboard, just to play a prank?
Well, that sounds like you just described the average Stanfordite.
I suppose you'd also like Sun to release open sources for their older sun3 and sun2 hardware as well? Because its really urgently important that those systems still be able to run OpenSolaris! While that'd be nice, there are a lot more under the sun4c/d/m platforms that exist, and there are modern versions of the essentials that are taken for granted today in those machines(fast ethernet via sbus, console, storage). Another thing for the sun4m platform is the install base - it is still a significant number even though the machines are far removed from their original (supported by contract) owners. Taking it out now with the kind of install base that still exists (w/o the "last, unsupported, just to tie up loose ends" release) seems to have little logic outside of them having a not-so-stable financial situation.
In short, I'd not care to see how many domains (nice, but probably not possible) could be thrown onto a SS/20 Quad Ross, just enough of a release to be able to act as a reference point. This "reference point" release would document all known hardware that Sun can(even the infamous EOL'd sbus ZX, but still within reason). What happens after they get the source up to where other releases were at release point is up to whomever picks it up.
Sun3's and Sun2's have a low enough install base that BSD's can cover them. That's not where Sun4m (and the c/d platforms) are *yet*, but give it 10-15 more years and you'll have a good chance of seeing them there - the compile times arent *that* abysmal.
The exception to this is certain sun4d hardware, but anyone who still has a sun4d powered up should probably be shot for wasteful power consumption. I'd agree on the Sun4d (Craylink machines) being a bit of a waste of power, but if they have the money (and good healthcare), go ahead. Just that some of them probably have done that job of shooting themselves (in the foot) for you during hardware maintenance.
But OpenSolaris is freely downloadable, modifiable, and redistributable. You can make your own distro. And Sun can't revoke that right away.
Tried doing that with a sun4m machine but kinda got stuck when I found that the last supported build (Build 22) wasnt availible - it would require purchasing the company to change their mind.
Something that is also interesting is that they're after some of the more ancient PPC and modern PPC/POWER machines, but dont seem to care to have Sparcstation boxen with OpenSolaris. Build 22 as its own platform would be viable if just retargeted for sun4cdm (aka The Machines Sun Wants to Forget).
Then WTF are you doing posting here? You obviously haven't looked into it. Yes, OpenSolaris is mostly OpenSource (there are a few closed bits, but they are not necessarily critical bits anyway).
Why yes, sun4cdm support is quite significant - strange that they can get PPC32/PPC64 but nothing of their own platform. I guess the developers dont seem to like their own dogfood.
Just because Sun has control of OpenSolaris, doesn't mean you can't download the whole source tree and fork it and start your own project. (Some folks have already done this, check out the PPC port of Solaris, or the port of Debian userland to the Solaris kernel, for example.) That is what Open Source means.
Well, strange that if you try building for sun4m, a lot of pieces are missing(e.g. for that nicely performing, 32bit SS20 that could probably give some age-equivalent, OSOL supported PPC's the run for the money). Namely about everything sun4cdm is missing, save for a few lowend sbus modules.
bmc@sun.com, thank you for making me a solidly entrenched fan of your competitor, Big Blue. No wonder you had to have a selectionist part of time where not much was open short of The Thing that sun4m's Couldnt Run, dtrace.
P.S. As for those who have suggested a *BSD - Sun comes short on documentation of their hardware again - from the sbus cards up to their Ultrasparc III processors.
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All of which fall apart(the watch and the TV), implode(the television), and/or are thrown away (all of those due to quality) by the time you get to the airport on the way back.
I guess the problem in the end is that so many Americans are fond of driving cars with such poor fuel economy. Two weeks ago I did a 600 mile road trip, we got 49.8 mpg out of a 1.6l Ford Focus. I have personally seen Americans claiming that 25mpg is very good mileage... I know the gallon is smaller in the USA (3.8l instead of 4.5l), but even that "good mileage" is rubbish by European standards.
Maybe they dont want to drive cars that amount to being not much larger than coffins - before they're crushed by that semi they eventually run into on the crowded highway. I'll take a 3.8l powered car from GM any day with some actual performance in it versus something that just is merely "fuel efficient". A road trip for some might just be getting there, but there is a very large segment that will not give up tons in performance just to obtain efficiency.
The only thing I'd do with that is to make sure I last long enough so that I get to experience the first vestiges of economic prosperity 100-200 years later that finally comes to the present day Rust Belt. The second would be to make sure no transition ever interferes with that prosperity for the longest possible time.
Well, doubly so if you live in the Midwest, or triply so if you live in Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania or about anywhere similar until first-class education is a given even at the university level.
That all but explains what's keeping things going, with supposedly good numbers. Add the gutting of the Middle-class, the creation of an area that has become low-income, low opportunity for the majority - where populist measures(read: universally non-competitive admissions/fully paid financing to any university in exchange for globalization) may end up being quite necessary to fix a major problem. That problem being
the non-existence of the signs of a good economy - but all the signs of one being dismantled with no workable revitalization plan for the displaced.
(To preempt some people - this excludes Honda, Toyota, and the other "Foreign Manufactured, US Assembled" manufacturers if you're going to talk about them contributing anything useful)
The car initiative is what excites me most really. There is no good scientific/manufacturing reason that I know of that we can't be driving around in affordable hybrid/completely petrol devoid cars. It really does seem to be a reluctance based on the huge oil cartels.
So if Google, with its huge wealth, can kick start the availability of cars that are cheaper to run and far better for the environment, how can there not be a market?
Unfortunately they're going to have to be making a drop-in replacement for some of the finer Detroit built cars (hint:Mid 1980's/Early 1990's Big Three US domestics onward for a small target) already out on the road before I see any interest. Then the deal breaker is if the performance isnt equivalent to engine that's been replaced, from those 4cyl cars that could definitely use the boost up to the highend vehicles that have plenty of room under the hood and could still be made to perform the same.
That would be proof of how good of a job they could do, and not be something too large of a job to do to prove how well they could fix that problem instead of creating another one. The cars exist, and people already have them - just that this would be small enough of a target to move people in the right direction while not throwing out what works.
They're Stanfordites - somehow they dont know how to do it without finding some very exclusionist way to do it.
If they'd want to even get to being anywhere close to being out of that hole as well as strictly following "Do No Evil", they ought to look at history and see what NCR did before they sold everything off. That means they'd have to go back and think "How can it be done without exclusionism and bring in profits?". Even in this era, it still can be done. This time it wouldnt be inward facing such as NCR did, but a outward facing, non-exclusionist group.
Use a provisional ballot. With Ohio and other states going with these machines, if there is an option to not go Diebold, I'm taking it. At least I know that it's just a bit harder to tamper without there being some evidence for it.
More accurate headline: "Senate Committee Republicans Vote Bush as Emperor Nixon II"
Unfortunately Nixon would have had a problem with Alito, Roberts, Bolton, Condolezza Rice (potentially due to Stanford's exclusivity), Elaine Chao (Secretary of [Offshoring] Labor, educated by Harvard), Samuel Bodman(Secretary of Energy, educated by MIT), Michael Chertoff (DHS, educated by Harvard), and potentially others. Miers would have been a candidate promoted in good faith and not as a decoy.
While that and some other things would have not changed, they would probably be ideologically near opposite from each other, political power and personal connections being their only solid links.
When the closed up (in a worse degree) service known as Orkut that uses the euphemism of "Trusted Friends" to soften up the word elitism opens up and is otherwise unaltered. Facebook - it's known that it could be open.
I find it kinda weird... considering that a lot of companies say it's too burdensome to even bother checking to make sure someone's in the country legally.
They do, they just score Citizenship by Birth as the lowest possible value.
Remember, your vote counts
Not valid in (the greater part of) Ohio, or anywhere else with Diebold voting machines.
...what else other than continuous economic, political or criminal issues in the last 30 years (or combinations thereof) to light up a big sign that says "Leave Ohio if you can"?
Man, they can arrest you for anything anymore in Ohio. Yes, I live there.
Mind that Ohio doesnt have much to say about being legitimate or prosperous- if you know Ohio enough, just follow the money. Some mind bending tricks such as McGee's Economic Blunder to prevent the inevitable suburbian flight, things like Diebold, or NCR's great exit in the 1990's.
Criminal/civil offenses are sort of the final way to make money around here when job departure is constant and replacements are usually lower income if at all.
I presume that you already are familiar with some of Ohio's finest after encountering town sized speed traps, or "25mph here, but only for under a mile and 45mph on each side" zones. Become a mayor of a small town, set your speed traps, have a guaranteed revenue stream, then get a nice shiny new Interceptor for the law enforcement to show for a one stoplight town.
The only solution is to get rid of political parties or get a third party
Really. Not. Happening. (unless you want to get rid of Ohio entirely or reform it massively)
Given how 2 major cities are on the bottom ten lists for average income (Dayton for its mid-sized- ~26k average, Cleveland on large sized- ~24.5k average) and with places such as Southeast Ohio being hit even harder, gaining economic prosperity always seems to have put political debate on the backburner since 1980. You arent going to get anything of any true political change in a state that has seen decline for nearly the past 30 years.
The major downside to this program is that the only real opportunities that exist in matters of guaranteed high-income jobs are with government contractors, or the financial sector- the rest has left or is leaving. This new regulation is unfortunately not the kind we need but what usually comes around here - and it'd probably make a few people unable to get a clearance of any kind.
In short, Ohio continually redefines new lows in about everything possible in the political, economic, and criminal subjects at the same time, it may require massive changes in the very least to repair the recent damage, and may need to reform education in painful ways (probably one of the places where there would be an actual need to just bite the bullet and just guarantee tuition and admission to anywhere on some non-merit, residence basis, along with career assistance) just to repair all the 25+ straight years of economic and political disasters.
That would be ideal, but remember that the law generally doesn't apply to the rich and powerful
One problem with that one - a lot of the rich and powerful already *left* Ohio, and what's left are the financially and/or ethically challenged. With at least 2 cities on the bottom 10 average income lists and declining populations, it's no surprise you can pass anything from speedtrap creation, house companies like Diebold (who will gladly secure your money but not your vote) and do things like this.
The upside is that a LOT of stuff is cheaper around here, but only if you can find a job that wont be laid off(GM/Ford) or offshored(the entire Columbus financial "district" that's all around it).
Sun has done some questionable things, but those aren't it.
Their handling of sun4m and hardware thereof in not-so OpenSolaris 10 seems to be a bit (more?) questionable given that there was a workable, buildable version of it- and I doubt svn goes back 3-4+ years to s10_22. It'd at least be better to have them put it back in, along with all the hardware eol'ed along the way(and fully documented). Then Sun can just close the book on that platform for good once there is something of a "reference build" that works as well as the rest (versus something that was crippled out of spite - dtrace is forgiven here, and I'd think you could dig up s10_22, and enough of else was dropped to get about any sun4m class system running, bmc).
Anything much earlier than sun4c/d/m seems to not have much of an installbase, or mass amounts of documentation missing on critical points of hardware(console, network, storage). Ironic that for now that Sun *doesnt* want you to have your hardware and software match, even when there is a perfect opportunity to do it.
What's with this bug in mozilla, since getting gcc and vacpp to coexist in the first place will break things despite the best care taken to avoid it.
Very true. And that is why it will be only a matter of time before the "blogosphere" becomes just as ruthless and corrupt as the power structures it presently confronts. Soon the internets will be so infested with bought-and-paid-for astroturfers that it will be impossible to discriminate between honest opinion and slimy propaganda. The line between the two will blur into a fine pink mist.
This reminds me of a well known right wing Echo Chamber. That, and the entire Pajamas Media network make The Rolling Swinebucket's slashvertisment articles seem tame.
You can roll back to a build 22 via the SVN history. Shouldn't be too hard.
That presumes that s10_22 has enough of a history to exist - if it does, and it's buildable and works, you'd be right. However, I wont be holding my breath of it existing thanks to Sun.
FWIW, there is talk about reinstating sun4m class systems.
Would you be able to point to a more recent discussion, since Google is pointing to a lot of talk in 2005, but not much in 2006 outside of slashdot.
This would have to be undone, but if s10_22 could be pulled as you said, there might be some hope. Even later builds than s10_22 carry old bits in.
1.3 Lenovo - The lowest score of all companies.
7 Dell - Points lost for not yet having models without the worst chemicals. Strong support for takeback.
Given the origin of some of the parts and some of the practices of their host country, that wasnt a surprise. Dell, however has to have a good policy given the throwaway quality of their post-offshoring era machines.
No thanks to Greenpeace, I value quality a lot more than how (ecologically)green a company is.
It's bad enough seeing scumbag trustfund kiddies flaunting their inherited wealth by doing nothing but ski or drive their Lamborghinis around all day, but paying $6,000 for a scrap of cardboard, just to play a prank?
Well, that sounds like you just described the average Stanfordite.
I suppose you'd also like Sun to release open sources for their older sun3 and sun2 hardware as well? Because its really urgently important that those systems still be able to run OpenSolaris!
While that'd be nice, there are a lot more under the sun4c/d/m platforms that exist, and there are modern versions of the essentials that are taken for granted today in those machines(fast ethernet via sbus, console, storage). Another thing for the sun4m platform is the install base - it is still a significant number even though the machines are far removed from their original (supported by contract) owners. Taking it out now with the kind of install base that still exists (w/o the "last, unsupported, just to tie up loose ends" release) seems to have little logic outside of them having a not-so-stable financial situation.
In short, I'd not care to see how many domains (nice, but probably not possible) could be thrown onto a SS/20 Quad Ross, just enough of a release to be able to act as a reference point. This "reference point" release would document all known hardware that Sun can(even the infamous EOL'd sbus ZX, but still within reason). What happens after they get the source up to where other releases were at release point is up to whomever picks it up.
Sun3's and Sun2's have a low enough install base that BSD's can cover them. That's not where Sun4m (and the c/d platforms) are *yet*, but give it 10-15 more years and you'll have a good chance of seeing them there - the compile times arent *that* abysmal.
The exception to this is certain sun4d hardware, but anyone who still has a sun4d powered up should probably be shot for wasteful power consumption.
I'd agree on the Sun4d (Craylink machines) being a bit of a waste of power, but if they have the money (and good healthcare), go ahead. Just that some of them probably have done that job of shooting themselves (in the foot) for you during hardware maintenance.
But OpenSolaris is freely downloadable, modifiable, and redistributable. You can make your own distro. And Sun can't revoke that right away.
Tried doing that with a sun4m machine but kinda got stuck when I found that the last supported build (Build 22) wasnt availible - it would require purchasing the company to change their mind.
Something that is also interesting is that they're after some of the more ancient PPC and modern PPC/POWER machines, but dont seem to care to have Sparcstation boxen with OpenSolaris. Build 22 as its own platform would be viable if just retargeted for sun4cdm (aka The Machines Sun Wants to Forget).
Then WTF are you doing posting here? You obviously haven't looked into it. Yes, OpenSolaris is mostly OpenSource (there are a few closed bits, but they are not necessarily critical bits anyway).
Why yes, sun4cdm support is quite significant - strange that they can get PPC32/PPC64 but nothing of their own platform. I guess the developers dont seem to like their own dogfood.
Just because Sun has control of OpenSolaris, doesn't mean you can't download the whole source tree and fork it and start your own project. (Some folks have already done this, check out the PPC port of Solaris, or the port of Debian userland to the Solaris kernel, for example.) That is what Open Source means.
Well, strange that if you try building for sun4m, a lot of pieces are missing(e.g. for that nicely performing, 32bit SS20 that could probably give some age-equivalent, OSOL supported PPC's the run for the money). Namely about everything sun4cdm is missing, save for a few lowend sbus modules.
bmc@sun.com, thank you for making me a solidly entrenched fan of your competitor, Big Blue. No wonder you had to have a selectionist part of time where not much was open short of The Thing that sun4m's Couldnt Run , dtrace.
P.S.
As for those who have suggested a *BSD - Sun comes short on documentation of their hardware again - from the sbus cards up to their Ultrasparc III processors.
The only problem is that SIP is quite lacking on those models, but they do have about everything else.