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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- Message-ID: <15540@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 07:42:54 GMT
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- > I'm part of the "assorted techies" category and I think you are missing
- > the problem.
- > If I'm using someone else application I don't care if I'm running
- > Windows NT, HP-UX or even MS-DOS as long as the application works.
- > But I don't look forward to porting to a new platform all the tools
- > I've built to solve my particular brand of problems.
-
- You're also missing something.
-
- Your argument about porting *your* tools is an argument against
- *changing the platform*, not against SV. (Similar arguments could, BTW,
- be made about third-party tools, in that not all of them will Just Work
- under 5.x, and will require porting.) If SunOS had started out as being
- SV-based, and was being converted to a more BSDish base, the *exact same
- arguments* could be used against that change.
-
- I suspect, in fact, that, in practice, many - perhaps most - problems
- people will have with SunOS 5.x will be due to it being *different* from
- SunOS 4.x, *not* from it being SV-based.
-
- Unfortunately, all too many people are going for general philosophical
- whines about BSD vs. SV, rather than for specific complaints about the
- fact that the OS is changing at all.
-