OFF: Solaris

[Paul Mather]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:57:47PM -0600, Arin Komins wrote:
=> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Eric Siegerman wrote:
=>
=> :Subject: Re: OFF: Solaris
=> :
=> :On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 04:47:48PM -0500, Mike Montfort wrote:
=> :> Is also a phenomenal Prog Rock band reminisent of Jethro Tull.
=> :
=> :Is *also* not-so-phenomenal operating system (vaguely)
=> :reminiscent of FreeBSD :-/
=>
=> <warning, unix geekery>
=>
=> hey...not at all reminiscent of freebsd.  Solaris is sys V based, not
=> bsd based.  So more reminiscent of the other sys V based systems (aix,
=> hpux, irix, etc.)

Indeed, Solaris is when Sun chose to leave the True Path[tm] of BSD
they'd followed with their previous SunOS releases and munge in
SysV-isms ("to get the best of both worlds"), resulting in the hybrid
abomination that is Solaris...

=> ...and isn't a bad OS!

We shall agree to disagree, then. ;-)

(Actually, you can get get a "free"---as in [almost?] zero
dollars---Solaris, but it's not "free" as in open source.  Kind of
like how you can get a "hobbyist licensed" version of Tru64 for those
of us that have DEC Alphas...)

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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