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- From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.140729.24630@fwi.uva.nl>
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- References: <1992Nov19.130649.8419@ra.msstate.edu> <1992Nov19.142814.19110@penny.cs.fredonia.edu> <DSCHIEB.92Nov19120619@muse.cv.nrao.edu> <1992Nov20.123416.13394@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:07:29 GMT
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- scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov19.142814.19110@penny.cs.fredonia.edu> mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar) writes:
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- >> 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.
-
- And the other question: on which Sun hardware will it run? What
- periferals will it support? I expect that there will be much
- more software for Solaris 2.x than BSDI.
- I expect that BSDI for SPARCs will be limited to OS classes,
- OS research projects and home use.
-
- Casper
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