Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:11:08 -0800 From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBsd (reposted) Message-ID: <3A234C7C.2B4995B7@wiliweld.com> References: <105953745@toto.iv> <14883.13084.936215.485266@guru.mired.org> <20001128153136.F36542@echunga.lemis.com> <14883.18053.897935.589671@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer wrote: <humbly_snipped> > The real confusion is in the usage, not the naming - well, except for > Solaris 7 & 8. I don't know where the habit of using "Solaris" to > refer to Solaris 2.x/SunOS 5.x and "SunOS" to refer to Solaris > 1.x/SunOS 4.x, but's a confusing habit. </humbly_snipped> I have to thank everyone for the postings for it's being archived while I'm beginning the new paperback I just bought "A Quarter Century of UNIX" by Peter Salus. I cannot tell you the caution I urge to anyone to who gets too comfortable with the mouse clicking installs of Linux etc, I've been having a sheer battle all night here with the Solaris-8 distro (work related project) and long for just the knowledge of "HALF OF WHAT YOU THREE HAVE FORGOTTEN" about Unix. I think a UNIX boot camp is needed somewhere, somehow, to really make people appreciate what the experienced Unix users have had to go through to get where we have got to today. I have gained much more respect for the old Unix people each and every time I log into a new Unix distro. I don't know how I'm typing this letter, for after my struggles tonight trying to splice Pine and Fetchmail into Solaris-8 I've been reduced from 6'-2" to about '2-6". Humbly Yours, Bill -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 "UNIX, A Way of Life !!!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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