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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:29100 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4006 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!quagga.ru.ac.za!ucthpx!ucthpx!not-for-mail From: vincent@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Russell Vincent) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: LINUX SUCKS!!!! Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Date: 7 Nov 1994 19:34:55 +0200 Organization: University of Cape Town Lines: 29 Message-ID: <39lofv$q5f@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> References: <085334Z20101994@anon.penet.fi> <1994Oct28.041604.589@escape.widomaker.com> <REINHOLZ.94Nov2100233@SG0D12.sig01> <399akb$271@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <39a1pu$3u8@Mercury.mcs.com> <39bscj$9r1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <REINHOLZ.94Nov4101826@SG0D12.sig01> <CyrB5r.FqG@news.cern.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: ucthpx.uct.ac.za X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dan Pop (danpop@cernapo.cern.ch) wrote: : In <REINHOLZ.94Nov4101826@SG0D12.sig01> reinholz@SG0D12.sig01 (Jeff Reinholz) writes: : >it has failed! If it is time to shutdown anything it is BSD. You might : >want to go over to the jobs offered board, and contract board and see : >how many are hiring for BSD vs System V (solaris, unix-ware, etc.). : You may want to explain us why most Sun users are running SunOS 4.1.x : (BSD based) and why Sun is still selling and supporting this "obsolete" : version, since they tried (and are trying) very hard to make Solaris 2.x : their flagship OS. : You could also explain us why SysVR4 has integrated _a lot_ of BSD : features (sockets, remote commands, to name only a few). And not to mention that IBM's AIX has incorporated most(?) BSD features (along with most(?) SVR5 features) - heck, those /bin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin directories are a nightmare with all their "compatability links"!! I worked on AIX for the first time today, and was even (pleasantly) surprised that they don't use those idiotic SVR5 r?.d directories for starting up - what a pleasure to edit nice little rc.* startup files. :-) I may even get to like AIX - *shock* *horror*! :-) All that from one of the "newer" operating systems - makes you think doesn't it? -Russell