Recently I’ve been playing around in 86Box (build 3.7.1 for MacOS to be precise!) with 1997’s Red Hat Linux 4.2. After a little fiddling I seem to have got it mostly working – with one major caveat; I have had real issues with getting X/FVWM to work with any other display resolution than 640*480. Should I come up with a solution I shall, of course, update this page.
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Old Solaris Patches (Sunsite Mirrors)
sunsite.icm.edu.pl looks to be an old mirror of the pre-Oracle Sunsites. It’s quite useful for patches for older Solaris releases.
To get Internet Explorer 5.0 for Unix (Sparc) running on the Sparc release of Solaris 7 I ended up using:
108376-46: OpenWindows 3.6.1: Xsun Patch (Patch File)
106327-23: SunOS 5.7: 32-Bit Shared library patch for C++ (Patch File)
106950-24: SunOS 5.7: Linker Patch (Patch File)
And voila! Internet Explorer 5.0 for Unix running on the Sparc release of Solaris 7.0