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From: gavin@durban.vector.co.za (Gavin Maltby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
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Date: 15 Jan 1996 17:34:32 GMT
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Jim Reid (jim@cs.strath.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <DL29Az.Ax2@ftel.co.uk> I.G.Batten@ftel.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:
: Fair enough. However, application speed is not the big factor
: here. [For starters, SunOS would be a *lot* faster if Mr. Sun expended
: as much effort on it as they do fixing their self-inflicted problems
: in Slowlaris.] The major concern I have is all the gratuitous SvsVR4
: cruft that gets in the way of administering the system: the brain-dead
: and truly horrid print spooler, SAF ('nuf said), all the rc.? crap,
: the "-plumb" argument to ifconfig (WHY??), inittab and run levels,
: etc, etc.
I won't defend the print spooler (of course, SunOS 4 had a truly primitive
print implementation that you really had to hack to get to do something
out-of-the-ordinary). The SAF really is very powerful, albeit with an
awful command-line structure (but surely SunOS 4 fans find that appealing!).
The rc.? "crap", inittab and run-levels are far superior to the SunOS 4
rivals, though they may seem a little to well distributed for easy admin
by some. How can the -plumb argument (open interface device and setup
the STREAMs required) really be a serious cause to dislike Solaris 2?
: Well not the arguments from me. Rather than fix something that was
: broken, Sun (and all the other vendors) have broken something that was
: fixed. This is the biggest complaint I have about Solaris: there's a
: lot of pain for no real gain - apart from the artificial benefit of
: getting an OS for the latest Sun kit that Sun won't let run SunOS.
There is a whole lot to gain. The religious war derives from whether
the benefits should have been derived from the old SunOS 4 based kernel
or through first switching to SVR4.
Gavin
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