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Subject: Re: /etc/netstart bogons.. 
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> At 12:42 PM 4/26/97 -0700, patl@Phoenix.volant.org wrote:
> >> Perhaps this comes down to personal preference, but I've had
> >> considerably more years experience in SysV than BSD, and I by
> >> *far* prefer the BSD approach.
> >
> >Yes, it does come down to personal preference.  I have many more
> >years with various flavors of BSD; but the rc.d/init.d system
> >is one of the few places where I think Solaris2 is a clear win
> >over BSD.
> >
> 
> The grass is always greener... :-)

Nope, doesn't apply here - I've got an old SPARCstation 1+
running Solaris 2.5.1 right beside my 486 with FreeBSD 2.2.
Each system has a few things that I wish the other had.

And my first experience with Solaris2 was 2.0beta3; so I know
just how bad Solaris2 could be.  (The SunOS4 compatability
generally didn't work.  There were no docs to help the user
find out what the bleep the new/SysV command was that replaced
the good old familiar BSD/SunOS4 command.  It was glacially slow.
And I was extatic the first time I managed to keep the system
up for 48 consecutive hours.  A feat that was accomplished by
leaving it to sit idle for the whole time.)  By 2.4 it became
quite usable, and I now prefer it over SunOS4 for SPARC boxes.

[ If you are interested in my SunOS history, the first Sun 1/100
that Sun Microsystems sold went to the start-up that I was working
for at the time; and sat on my desk.  It's in the Smithsonian now. ]



-Pat