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- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.093137.728@ualr.edu>
- From: lindstrom@acs.harding.edu
- Date: 19 Nov 92 09:31:36 -0500
- Reply-To: lindstrom@acs.harding.edu
- References: <1dtssaINN59p@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Nov12.204638.2538@alw.nih.gov> <15474@auspex-gw.auspex.com>,<1992Nov18.014711.1654@pacdata.uucp>
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- In article <1992Nov18.014711.1654@pacdata.uucp>, jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins) writes:
- >In article <15474@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- >>I also suspect fewer "engineers, scientists, and assorted techies" than
- >>some folks think actually care that much about BSD vs. SV;
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-
- It's not that I give a flip one way or the other. We are a small
- (how small?? One worstation!!) group.. so we can't afford to hire a
- "system administrator," *I* had to learn what was needed to get our
- Sun up and running. I'm not complaining so much about that, as I've
- learned much about computers (I'm a mathematician) and met some
- wonderful folks, but in the last eighteen months I have had three
- OS upgrades and now here comes a NEW operating system. And contrary
- to the propoganda, it's not a matter of inserting a cd and running
- a script (sure it loads the stuff, but hasn't come close to running
- yet). It's insert a cd, run the script and hope that no one needs the
- machine for the next few days while I take a tour through the file
- system.
-
- Solaris 2.0 scares me to death. When I read about how you big fish
- are having all sorts of trouble with it, I start thinking it's time to
- get out the pencils and do things the old way (bet I can do a FFT on a
- 1024x1024 array faster than I can get Solaris going).
-
- So- I will wait until I am convinced it'll run (Solaris 2.3+) and
- then make the jump.
-
- Greg Lindstrom
- glind@sun1.hu.edu ("sun1" makes you think we have another, eh??)
-
- Yeah, sure these are the opinions of my employer.
- Now let's talk about this swampland I'd like to sell....
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