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From: wgalazka@chem.uw.edu.pl (Wojciech Galazka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux ... (was BSD vs. LINUX)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 12:50:55 GMT
Organization: Chem. Dept., Warsaw Univ., Poland
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In article <michaelv.775258838@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
>From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
>Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX)
>Date: 26 Jul 94 21:40:38 GMT
>In <1994Jul24.185248.5906@escape.widomaker.com> shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Shannon Hendrix) writes:
>>Also, SunOS is no longer a port of BSD. It's yet another version of
>>SVR4.2 now, not BSD. It's been that way since Solaris 2 was released
>>and it is the future, like it or not.
>I would say "not". In fact, most everyone who has been with Sun for
>awhile only went to Solaris 2 after clawing and scratching, and being
>forced to by lack of new hardware support in their older BSD SunOS.
>Many sites would still be running SunOS (BSD) rather than upgrading to
>Solaris if their hardware permitted it. At least that's the
>impression I've gained from most of my associates where Suns are used.
You're quite right. I still work with SunOS 4.1.3 on my Sun machine although
my dealer is still and stilll suggesting me Solaris 2.1 (with big educational
discounts of course :) I found Solaris to be too different (at least at first
look) from good old SunOS and I have not enough time to learn new OS again.
So I went to FreeBSD...
Wojciech Galazka
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