OFF: Solaris

[Guido Vacano]

Solaris sucks! Nuff said! :-)

Guido

Paul Mather wrote:

>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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