It was open-sourced back in 2012, the title is misleading.

> Wheeeen I'm not running CDE, my CPU gets cooold

edit: oh, knowledge of this parody song seems to have fallen off the internet. The only reference I can find is a reddit post from 2009 [0], and its link to sunos.mp3 is dead. umm, here, https://snap.philsnow.io/2026-10-31T14-14-57.bqsytnc0ks4q6ie... ... It's definitely a product of its time, and a tiny time capsule into the zeitgeist of the mid-late 90s.

[0] https://reddit.com/r/science/comments/9ofyg/they_might_be_gi...

and transcribing the words to help the algorithm know it again:

  chorus:  
  The SunOS is a mass of irritating ass
  A gigantic, closed-source kernel
  Where source is built into executables
  By a compiler that is difficult to acquire

  Yo-ho (?) is hot, but Sun is not
  A place where we could code
  But on my SPARC, there'd be no life
  Without SunOS to load

  We need its shell, we need its prompt
  We need its CDE
  But if Java wins, without a doubt,
  There'll be no Perl or C

  [chorus]

  The SunOS is sloww
  (It is so slow, that it can be outperformed by many other operating systems:  Irix, AIX, Linux, and *even* Windows 2000)
  The SunOS is large
  (It is so large, that about 86,000 packages come in its standard distribution)
  The SunOS is really old
  (About 13 years old, and that's why it looks so crusty)

  When I'm not running CDE
  My CPU gets cold

  SunOS gives light, SunOS runs hot,
  SunOS will run on SPARC
  The SunOS will trip your UPS
  And leave you in the dark

  (Hackers have found that SunOS is a huge mess of outdated code.)
  (The look and feel of the SunOS are based on acid hallucinations by Kernighan, Ritchie, Thompson, and Stallman)

  [chorus]

  The SunOS, ladies and gentlemen.

Funny that back in the day it was considered a “heavy” on resources desktop but now it’s quite lightweight.

have always found the color scheme so unique and pleasing. like gelato on a beach.

(2012)?

is there a wayland port yet?

Yech! Seedy Eee!