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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- In-Reply-To: olsenc@carson.u.washington.edu's message of 12 Nov 92 21:56:59 GMT
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- References: <1dtssaINN59p@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Nov12.215659.20751@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 03:02:40 GMT
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- Clint> == Clint Olsen <olsenc@carson.u.washington.edu>
-
- Clint> I will be happy to upgrade to SunOS 4.1.3, but will NOT be
- Clint> interested in being a guinea pig for Sun's new obomination with
- Clint> System V. The next few years of Sun administration is going to
- Clint> be REALLY scary.
-
- Maybe. It will definitely be different.
-
- I've used (and partially adminned) a 3B2 running SVR3.2. There *are*
- some nice things in the SV administration model (not least the /etc/rc*.d
- directories, which are a lot more modular than "slap another few lines
- in /etc/rc.local" could ever be). NIS+ sounds like a big improvement
- (meaning it might be practical to run on the Internet without having to
- give away the store :) and there are other advantages.
-
- That said, yeah, there's gonna be one heck of a conversion headache for
- a lot of people and a lot of sites (probably including this one). And,
- yes, I'm planning to let other people go at it, and I'll wait for 2.1.1
- or whatever winds up being the stable release before I go into
- production use with Solaris 2. But the networking is there, a lot of
- the stuff we're used to in SunOS4 is there (remember, 4 was the first
- step toward the SVR4 way; would you *really* rather have BSD cron?), and
- it'll probably be something you look back on a year after the cutover as
- being worth it.
-
- Just make sure to test it on a non-critical system first :)
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