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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.nl.innet.net!INnl.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!206.109.2.48!bonkers!web.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1 Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 12 Dec 1996 18:37:30 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 37 Message-ID: <58pjda$atb@web.nmti.com> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <58n5q1$9ci@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <58pdbt$mjv@web.nmti.com> <32B04040.68FD@nho.hydro.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:92427 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1807 comp.unix.internals:11609 comp.unix.osf.osf1:17040 In article <32B04040.68FD@nho.hydro.com>, Birger Wathne <Birger.Wathne@nho.hydro.com> wrote: > > (1) It's a very large and complex system. > > (but it doesn't do much more than simpler systems) > It seems very complex, at least when you come from the Solaris 1.x > (or SunOS 4.x) world, as I once did. But after a while you start to > see and understand the logic, and after a few years, you mostly > see the same kind of beauty that you see in the older Sys V OS'es. Perhaps, but I have a pretty strong System V background and I don't see it. It looks like they took the broken printing model and went hog wild with it. > > (2) It doesn't provide good System V administrative semantics. > > (but it uses System V commands and files) > What do you mean here? It usually adheres to System V rel 4 semantics, For one thing, you really can't use init to change state reliably. > but some of the SVR4 things are terrible. Especially printing. Seconded. > Compiling for the Sys V environment on Domain/OS is *much* worse. I haven't had the, uh, pleasure. > Never had any problems here, but if any piece of software supports > SVR4, I use that when compiling. I seldom have to use BSD compatibility > these days. Well, I had some packages that were set up for BSD or System V, and found that they were easier to get running if I told them it was a BSD box. -- </peter>