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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!news.dra.com!netaxs.com!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!replicant.csci.unt.edu!jackson From: jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Solaris vs SunOs Date: 21 Aug 1996 18:01:01 GMT Organization: University of North Texas, Denton Lines: 26 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4vfist$kv@hermes.acs.unt.edu> References: <4vabsr$4mt@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <321A5DF4.FF6D5DF@FreeBSD.org> <4vf6dq$sgj@panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: replicant.csci.unt.edu In article <4vf6dq$sgj@panix.com>, Bryan Althaus <bryan@panix.com> wrote: > ATTENTION: UCB BSD is DEAD... SunOS 4.x is DEAD... move on to > Solaris 2.x it's Sun's future, and SVR4 is SCO's and HP's future > also. I know I'll regret not ignoring this flamebait. BSD is not dead. With the advent of 386bsd, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD there are far more computers and users running BSD UNIX now than any time in history. All the managers I know of who managed both SunOS 4 and Solaris 2 long for the old days. The only reason why SVr4 is a reasonable operating system is because of all of the stuff it stole from BSD and SunOS. I've used SVr3 and earlier System V UNIX's and I'll tell you they weren't pretty. The "kitchen sink" approach to UNIX typlified in SVr4 providing System V, SunOS and Berkeley utilities and interfaces is not the best direction for UNIX and computing to go and is the largest contributor to the bloat and performance issues facing modern operating systems. -- Bruce Jackson | P. O. Box 13886-NT | GAB 550E UNIX Systems Admin. | Denton TX 76203-3886 | (817)565-2279 Computer Sciences | jackson@cs.unt.edu | FAX (817)565-2799 Univ. of North Texas | http://replicant.csci.unt.edu/~jackson/