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- From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Subject: Re: SPARCclassic and SunOS 4.1.x
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.185758.7850@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
- References: <1992Dec14.071012.10498@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <1992Dec14.084639.18266@fwi.uva.nl> <2613@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 18:57:58 GMT
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- In article <2613@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> gjap@ukc.ac.uk (G.J.A.Paul) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Dec14.084639.18266@fwi.uva.nl> you write:
- >>As for that SysV thing, why is it that people value to 5-10 year old
- >>technology (4.3 BSD) over a much more modern Unix (Solaris 2.x)?
- >
- >Because the technology is better in 4.3BSD. Even Solaris 2.1 has an
- >antiquated feel about it. Everything is bloated and complicated and
- >doesn't lent itself to `remote administration' -- e.g. stupid
- >screen-based interfaces to do system administration.
-
- Interesting. Sun claims they only have the GUI-based version in 2.1. Are
- you sure you aren't thinking of vanilla SVR4?
-
- I would also like to point out (as I have been pointing out to Sun for over
- a year) that quite a lot of sites have only ASCII terminal consoles on their
- servers (why spend $3K on a bitmapped console that isn't needed?). It's rather
- difficult to do high-level administration on a server in single-user mode if
- there is no ASCII interface to the necessary tools.
-
- Of course, I've also been told that admintool really doesn't cover very much
- yet so you might as well just do it all by hand anyway ...
-
- Clearly the administration tools provided have a long way to go, but Sun is
- aware of that.
- --
- Ruth Milner NRAO/VLA Socorro NM
- Computing Division Head rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
-