I got my Sun3 running OpenWindows 2 today - It's X (with NeWS display postscript extensions):
vendor string: X11/NeWS - Sun Microsystems Inc.
The filemanager has a feature I've never seen anywhere else - a split between a view of a directory contents, and a hierarchical tree view of the directory tree.
There's a set of demos there as well.
The Demos incidentally seem to be a Hypertext based system. Left on my Sun3 list is my other Sun3 whose PSU is still unhappy, and trying to get Bluescsi to work (I see it from the USB end but haven't seen any life out of the SCSI yet); and if I get all that going I might give Linux a go.
@penguin42 very cool. I feel like I remember that tiger.
@ericthefish Oh that tiger has seen many things; it was commonly part of the Ghostscript distribution.
@penguin42 ah that'll be it it then 🙂. What are your next plans for the Sun?
@ericthefish There's not much more SunOS side to be done; I'd like to get SCSI going, and I've got another similar Sun3 whose PSU hasn't submitted to force yet.
@penguin42 cool. I'll enjoy reading your posts on that
@penguin42 aww man, sweet success! That brings back memories.
I don't know if I'd actually bother with Linux on that. BSD is its native OS. Maybe see if you can get it to 4.1.3.