Solaris, was Re: [HECnet] SIMH for VMS on VAX

On 17 Jan 2013, at 16:23, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 01/17/2013 04:18 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: I should try OpenIndiana I hate Sunacle Solaris with a passion. ;) I love it, but I can no longer, as of just recently, get patches. Sunacle refers to post-Oracle. :p (Does anyone have an account I can use? I'll be good, I promise...need it kinda badly) In server roles, I agree 100%. For workstations, it's Linux all the way with me nowadays. Since I can no longer get fast-enough SGI hardware, Apple has fucked up OS X so badly that it's (to me) unusable, and Oracle's Solaris is just so neolithic in its desktoppy stuff, it'll take a great shift of stuff to move me off of Linux. When I switched to it from OS X on the desktop 1.5 years ago, my productivity pretty much tripled. (admittedly most of that is due to the type of work I do though) What did you run on your SGI gear? IRIX, of course. Wheeeeeeeee. For server roles I personally prefer FreeBSD, but that's just a matter of the fact I feel comfortable working with it. That's great and all, and it's a great OS< but it's a really shitty match for SPARC (and Alpha) hardware. It was shoehorned into place on both platforms, something that never should've happened. Ahhh, yeah. Most of what I do involves PCs, so that'd be why it's my preference. I'd agree with OS X being unusable now. I spend a lot of time tweaking it and making it bend over backwards to do what I want. Often involving using Terminal.app exclusively with a bunch of X apps. ;) That's how I've always used graphical workstations...as a way to get a buttload of terminal windows. (that's what they were pretty much FOR in earlier times!) I once bent windows in to letting me run Cygwin apps from cmd.exe. I can't function without a terminal that functions at least somewhat like a UNIX. ;) (command-wise) I seriously get lost using a GUI file manager. ;) Yeah, I don't see how anyone deals with that. I only use it for large drag-and-drop of dissimilar files. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA