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From: bryan@panix.com (Bryan Althaus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
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Date: 13 Dec 1996 09:50:45 -0500
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Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com) wrote:
: In article <58n5q1$9ci@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de>,
: Andreas Borchert <borchert@turing.mathematik.uni-ulm.de> wrote:
: > On 11 Dec 1996 16:37:18 GMT, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
: > > I've got a bunch of reasons for disliking Solaris. That it's based on System
: > > V isn't one of them. I've got far more experience with System V than BSD.
: 
: > Would you please so kind to enumerate some of your reasons?
: 
: 
: Now, some of these have apparently been fixed in 2.4 and 2.5, and of course
: porting System V software has become less of an issue... I've done my ports,
: and new software that uses the System V interfaces tends to be written for
: the Solaris environment now. But Solaris gave me a pretty bad time for a
: pretty long time, and I'm not much interested in renewing my acquaintance
: with it.

This is such bullshit.  Read your last line.  You haven't used Solaris
in a long time.  Most people consider Solaris from 2.4 on.  So in all
your arguements your talking about Solaris 2.0->2.3, which everyone
knew was buggy and to stay away from.

Yet Solaris 2.4 came out in late 1994, and there currently at 2.5.1
with 2.6 coming out.

So let's talk about UnixSwear 1.x.  A nightmare.  But when you talk
UnixWare you mean 2.0. So UnixWare 2.0 must suck because UnixWare 1.x
sucked so bad.

So all you've let us know is the UnixSwear 2.x is better than Solaris 2.3.