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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- Message-ID: <15550@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:46:19 GMT
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >(2) We will have to revise and recompile the source we maintain -- at
- >least if we want optimal performance. This is a chore that will affect
- >end-users and system administrators alike. (Of course, if the code
- >is designed to link with the System V libraries, something Sun has been
- >encouraging customers to do for quite a while, this shouldn't be much
- >of a burden.)
-
- Plus, Solaris 2.x is one of the SVR4-based releases that includes the
- "BSD compatibility" package, so you may not have to revise your source
- as much as you would if you were converting it to run in an SV
- environment, or at least not have to do so immediately.
-