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- From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.123416.13394@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
- Organization: Inland Sea
- References: <1992Nov19.130649.8419@ra.msstate.edu> <1992Nov19.142814.19110@penny.cs.fredonia.edu> <DSCHIEB.92Nov19120619@muse.cv.nrao.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 12:34:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.142814.19110@penny.cs.fredonia.edu> mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar) writes:
-
- > Which makes me think that this would be the ideal time for FSF
- > (Gnu project) to complete and release their operating system and have
- > support for the new line of Suns. Anyone know of the status of their
- > OP SYS project? Going by their past record of creating excellent
- > software, I would consider runnning FSF's OP SYS and giving up Sun's
- > software altogether - at least I'll have access to source.
-
- dschieb@muse.cv.nrao.edu (Darrell Schiebel) writes:
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- > I would like to see this too, but I don't know of any operating
- > systems for Suns besides the ones that come directly from Sun.
- > Are there any?? Inquiring minds want to know...
-
- Supposedly BSDI will be discussing their plans for a SPARC version at
- SUG. This still means an OS upgrade, but with BSDI you get source at a
- reasonable price. A more critical question is how much 3rd party SunOS
- software will run on it, either 4.1X SW or Solaris 2 software.
- --
- "When Dexter's on the Internet, can Hell be far behind?"
- -- Steve Simmons, scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us
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