NeXT (was (OT) Sgi Indy) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Jul 2001

On Jul 19, 12:08, Jarkko Teppo wrote:

...
  Well, NeXT did a few things against unix traditions,
NI didn't
 probably work out well 
:-)

...
  but objc, developing environment and the
 windowing system certainly did. One really has to try those to see
 how badly X11 sucks. 
I've heard good things about the development environment.  I'm not overly
impressed with the window manager, but I've seen much worse.  And I can
think of a few shortcomings of X11 (colour [mis]management for one)

...
  If you end up with a corrupted NI db (badly corrupted)
you can reset all
 the NI information by booting single-user and

 cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig /etc
 cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo /etc/netinfo 
I did almost exactly that after poking about last week.  Nice to know it
was the right guess!

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York