On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 08:29:45AM -0400, Carlos Murillo wrote:
I second the commentary on Linux.
Hehehe. ;-)
[The audience should know that I am not that Linux friendly...]
However, regarding the use of Sun OS 4.1, I disagree.
While SunOS 4.x is interesting because of its usage of
NeWS (something like displaypostscript), it is hopelessly behind, not Y2K
compliant and there is no support.
There are some patches. I know a Sun 3
collector (http:www.sun3zoo.de)
who has Y2K patches for sun3(x) SunOS 4. I am sure you can get them
for SPARC as well. SunOS 4 in general is not that behind, as it was
quite modern at its days. (Shared libs, lots of SysV extensions, ...)
You will have trouble building the newer GNU
utilities.
You will have trouble building GNU stuff on anything other than Linux,
or at least a x86 / litle endian / 32 bit machine with gcc.
you can run Solaris 2.6 on them,
Yes. But SunOS
4 is more "classic" and we are on the classic computers
mailing list... ;-)
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage:
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