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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.pbi.net!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!bonkers!web.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1 Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 10 Dec 1996 17:44:23 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 30 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <58k7hn$nur@web.nmti.com> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <58hj11$bb6@panix.com> <58hs93$h63@web.nmti.com> <58invm$s4b@abyss.west.sun.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91995 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1752 comp.unix.internals:11544 comp.unix.osf.osf1:16969 In article <58invm$s4b@abyss.west.sun.com>, Bruce Adler [Contractor] <adler@West.Sun.COM> wrote: > In article <58hs93$h63@web.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote: > >Son, I like Unixware over Solaris too. Remember Interactive UNIX? That was > >System V based as well. Sun bought Interactive and pretty much forced all the > >Interactive users to switch to Solaris. Those folks didn't much care for > >being switched from System V to... um... whatever Solaris is. > You're grasping at strawmen. If I didn't already know that you were so > heavily biased against Sun I might actually think there was some truth > to what you say. I see. You're so heavily biased against me that you don't consider that maybe I'm telling the truth? That's whatyacall ironic, isn't it? Go ask the NetBSD core team about my horrible System V boosterism some time. I dropped out of there after getting thoroughly spanked for offering to provide a System V init clone. Maybe they're right... though I've noticed they're splitting up /etc/rc too these days. There's some good stuff in System V (and hooray for DEC for recognising that and sticking a System V init in Digital UNIX). When Sun does good stuff I'm right in there cheering for them. When they do stupid stuff (like Solaris) I'm not going to be shy about that either. It's a damn shame they got clobbered by the OSF people, for example, in the Open Look versus Motif wars... they had the technically better product there. -- </peter>