> I suspect he's a holdover from the switch from SunOS > to Solaris, way > back in the early 90s. SunOS was a BSD-based system, > and many > old-timers really disliked the switch to the > SVR4-based Solaris.
My first Solaris was 2.5.1. So I started off on a System V Release 4.0 UNIX, and I feel extremely lucky that I did. Then my voyages took me to IRIX, which had also just completed the transition to System V Release 4. That was an awesome piece of technology to use and behold; a true multimedia UNIX. Then I ended up on HP-UX 10.20, and being that hp too went the System V route, I was right at home. A rock solid, high performance OS with an intelligent, advanced software management subsystem, SD-UX, high performance hardware (PA-RISC), and a really advanced volume manager, it couldn't be anything but love! I suspect AIX, even with all his idiosyncrocies, would have been OK too. It's too bad I didn't get a chance to work on him in-depth as I did on the other three. I regret that to this present day. > All of that of course is ancient history. If he's > wedded to the *BSD > way of doing systems, well, then, he's likely using > an apt-based Linux > (Debian or Ubuntu) rather than an rpm-based one (SUSE > or RedHat), and > it's gonna be hard to get him to change his mindset. > But at least > olaris still has the SunOS userland utils in /usr/ucb Actually, I spend my days trying to make SuSE Linux Enterprise Server do the things Solaris can do with Flash(TM) and JumpStart(TM). And I'm making RPMs and doing system engineering all day long. Before that, I did the same on redhat Enterprise Linux. When you've come from sgi IRIX, and HP-UX, and Solaris, you get to experience just how miserable and deficient even "enterprise" GNU/Linux solution is. Stuff's just not cooked or thought through. And, now, I see OpenSolaris going that same route. > sk him how he feels about HPUX. :-) I like HP-UX. I do development on it, and lots and lots of porting, compiling and packaging on it. What I dislike is that it is not gratis, and not easily available. And that it is obscure. But it's a good, solid, high performance, System V enterprise UNIX. UNIX! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
