18 Nov
2021
18 Nov
'21
7:05 p.m.
Yes, ?more correctly?, Solaris 2.x is System V. Then after about 2.6, they threw away
the 2. Part. Then once the evil Oracle grabbed on, it all went into the dumpster.
Aug
AG5AT
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On Nov 18, 2021, at 11:56 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire
at neurotica.com> wrote:
?
Not quite. Solaris 1.1.2 is SunOS 4.1.4. That was an after-the-fact rebranding, but
still. What you state below is the common and accepted usage.
-Dave
On 11/18/21 12:53 PM, August Treubig wrote:
SunOS is BSD,
Solaris is System V.
Aug Treubig
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>> On Nov 18, 2021, at 11:35 AM, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net>
wrote:
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> ?On 18/11/21 17:20, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>> On 11/18/21 12:12 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
>>> They do it _today_.
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>> Well, since the last release of SunOS (not Solaris) was in 1994, and the last
release of Ultrix was in 1995..
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> It's still SunOS. Solaris is a different thing. Thanks marketing twats!
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>>> I think you can get burnt whether it's a bunch of academics eternally
discussing purity in committees or a couple of kids just picking something.
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>> Very true. The only way to truly protect yourself is to have the source code
and revert any poor decisions that they make. Oh, wait, we can do that!
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> So I've fallen into watching old Bryan Cantrill interviews. His rants on this are
FANTASTIC.
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> -brian
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA