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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!Steinar.Haug From: Steinar.Haug@runit.sintef.no (Steinar Haug) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: ffs & sunos? Date: 19 Nov 1994 09:33:16 GMT Organization: SINTEF RUNIT, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 32 Message-ID: <STEINAR.HAUG.94Nov19103316@bokfink.runit.sintef.no> References: <3ahflh$og3@spruce.cic.net> <scottr-1811941644050001@sarmac.acs.nmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bokfink.runit.sintef.no In-reply-to: scottr@acs.nmu.edu's message of Fri, 18 Nov 1994 16:44:05 -0500 > In fact, they could eliminate dependencies on the AT&T/USL > code entirely, while they're at it, to cut any royalty costs (which I > would assume they are paying USL). As far as I know Sun has bought the full rights to their ATT/USL Unix code parts from Novell for a onetime sum - I understand this to mean that they are *not* paying royalties to Novell any more. Anybody care to confirm or deny this? > Throw Solaris 2.x in the dumpster. Stability problems (I gave up > after patching 2.2 rather heavily earlier this year), compatibility > problems, and gratuitous changes of user interfaces go with it. Well, I run Solaris 2.3 on my LX at work, and it works fairly well. Mind you, I think a well-patched 4.1.3 works even better - but urging Sun to dump Solaris 2.x is of no use. Solaris 2.x is here to stay, whether you like it or not. > I ended up reinstalling SunOS 4 here, and three new SS5s were ordered > in August with the explicit understanding that Sun would ship SunOS 4 > with them. Yes, we're also buying new SS-5s with 4.1.3_U1. I don't really believe Sun's figures for how many people are running Solaris 2 (as in: Sun may well have sold that many Solaris 2 licenses, but a lot of those people are still running 4.1.x on the machines they have Solaris 2 licenses for). But I still believe Solaris 2.x is here to stay... Steinar Haug, SINTEF RUNIT, University of Trondheim, NORWAY Email: Steinar.Haug@runit.sintef.no