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From: pd@kubism.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard SFE)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.unixware
Subject: Re: Unix for PC
Date: 1 Dec 1994 22:41:24 GMT
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In <1994Dec1.173254.17071@slate.mines.colorado.edu> mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah) writes:

>Peter Dalgaard SFE (pd@kubism.ku.dk) wrote:
>: ... Slackware has been runnable at a level comparable to SunOS
>: 4.1.x for at least the past year. Remaining problems are nowhere
>: near comparable to what we are seeing currently with Solaris!

>Which problems are you referring to ? We're getting Solaris 2.4
>to evaluate, and haven't heard anything of such magnitude that 
>would prompt the above remark. Could you elaborate on major
>problems with Solaris 2.4 ?

Just one: It ain't here.....!

Was referring to things like the 101318-64
(ten-thirteen-eighteen-stroke-sixty-four) patch for 2.3, which
STILL doesn't quite seem to make things like NFS work properly.
--
   O_   ---- Peter Dalgaard
  c/ /'  --- Dept. of Biostatistics 
 ( ) \( ) -- University of Copenhagen
~~~~~~~~~~ - (pd@kubism.ku.dk)