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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: 12 Dec 1996 16:54:21 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <58n5q1$9ci@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de>,
Andreas Borchert <borchert@turing.mathematik.uni-ulm.de> wrote:
> On 11 Dec 1996 16:37:18 GMT, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
> > I've got a bunch of reasons for disliking Solaris. That it's based on System
> > V isn't one of them. I've got far more experience with System V than BSD.
> Would you please so kind to enumerate some of your reasons?
What, again?
(1) It's a very large and complex system.
(but it doesn't do much more than simpler systems)
(2) It doesn't provide good System V administrative semantics.
(but it uses System V commands and files)
(3) It doesn't provide good BSD administrative semantics.
(but it does use some BSD stuff as well)
(4) It's harder to port System V software to Solaris than to other
System V boxes.
(that's UHC, Intel UNIX, Unixware, and Xenix software)
(5) BSD software ports pretty well, but you have to make sure to set
your paths right to make sure you don't get the System V environment.
(Watch out for /usr/ccs/bin)
(6) On the same hardware, it doesn't perform as well as SunOS.
(Of course SunOS doesn't perform at all on the new hardware. Sigh)
Now, some of these have apparently been fixed in 2.4 and 2.5, and of course
porting System V software has become less of an issue... I've done my ports,
and new software that uses the System V interfaces tends to be written for
the Solaris environment now. But Solaris gave me a pretty bad time for a
pretty long time, and I'm not much interested in renewing my acquaintance
with it.
--
</peter>