[SPARCbook] passwd cracking

[Ken Hansen]

No great insight into Solaris 8 problems, but as a general rule, Solaris has
gotten bigger and a bit more bloated as it matured (haven't we all!)...
Besides, Solaris 2.6 work great, and is a reasonably recent release as far
as running publicly available binaries.

If/when Tadpole makes extensions/patches/etc for Solaris 7 I will probably
upgrade one of my SPARCbooks (up to three now, last one is my
spare/emergency machine) to it, but that will be as much out of curiosity as
opposed to a real need.

Since Sun4c machines are no longer supported on Solaris 8, I think Solaris
2.6 and 7 will remain popular releases for a reasonable time (IMHO only).

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Spray" <iws at tadpole.co.uk>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] passwd cracking


> > Not that I would run Solaris 8 on 64 Megs RAM and a 110 Mhz Sun4m CPU...
> >
> Why not ?  I haven't tried S8 at all (yet), but I certainly didn't feel
that
> 7 was any worse in day to day desktop performance than 2.6  If you have
any
> feelings about the general performance of 8 then I would be interested to
> know (off-list if you want).