18 Nov
2021
18 Nov
'21
6:53 p.m.
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:
?On 18/11/21 17:20, Dave McGuire wrote:
It's still SunOS. Solaris is a different thing. Thanks marketing twats!
So I've fallen into watching old Bryan Cantrill interviews. His rants on this are
FANTASTIC.
-brian
On
11/18/21 12:12 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
They do it _today_.
Well, since the last release of SunOS (not Solaris) was in 1994, and the last release
of Ultrix was in 1995.. 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.
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!