[SunRescue] Q on "optimal" OS for Sun4c machines, now that Solaris 8 won't run

[RogerWalkuprwalkup at cheqnet.net]

Dave McGuire wrote:

> On July 12, Jonathan Eisch wrote:
> > >   I dunno, from my perspective it's pretty mainstream.  I can drive
> > > through my area and point to no less than a dozen buildings in which
> > > there are SPARCstations running NetBSD.  They're all around me.  Seems
> > > pretty mainstream to me.  Maybe I'm just lucky?
> >
> > Actually, I live in central Wisconsin, and I've yet to find a bigger
> > installation of SparcStations than in my house (two sparcstations and my
> > SparcBook) in a 100 mile radius (the local colleges use all NT).
>
>   Microsoft is pushing NT into schools as hard as they can...so
> they'll have wave after wave of college grads who've seen nothing but
> NT, so they'll order NT when they get to their new jobs.
>
>   There's a lot of high-tech in my area...a *lot*.  I've found that,
> the higher the "tech", the lower the concentration of NT machines.
>
>        -Dave McGuire
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Apple did the samething in the k-12 schools.  From my personal experience as
an *old* (40) student and a part time worker in one of the tech offices at
University of Wisconsin-Superior, the people who run the labs, maintain the
network, and take care of the staff/faculty offices are pretty ignorent about
unix of any sort and, in some cases, little better than power users of MS
software (eg. they know how to install a custom version of Office 2000).  The
computer science dept has bought *an* Ultra 10 which will be used as a server
for compsci classes next year.  Most of the comp sci profs are big fans of
NeXT, but that's dead.  A recent grad donated 4-5  classics, but they're not
all running yet.  Looking around on the internet, I don't see much difference
in other UW campuses.  It's a wasteland.

Roger