[SPARCbook] passwd cracking

[d neal wise]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, The Archimage wrote:

> I want to make clear - I am not anti-Tadpole.  I really appreciate the
> fine systems they build.  Heck, I have a meeting with them later this
> week to look at their version of the E220R's, and if I have my way,
> we'll go with their stuff.  I am just a real customer service fiend, and
> I don't think it's good service to make your customers pay for needed
> patches.

For older systems like most of the people on this list have if you can't
get what you want with Solaris just look at another OS (if that's an
option for your needs). I run OpenBSD on my sparcbook 3GS. Yes there are
bits that aren't supported (yet) but I can do without most of those. I'm
able to run SunOS (and Solaris but I haven't needed this) binaries in
emulation for things that aren't natively available and I'm not dependant
on someone's good will in releasing patches outside of their sales life
cycle. tadpole appears to be pretty good about supporting all of us with
secondhand machines... think about the price list Bill posts from them and
so on. Ever tried getting a commercial OS for other secondhand gear? Yes
some vendors are producing hobbiest licenses but not all.

Then again I even have a free-ish copy of VMS for my VAXen thanks to this
kind of company attitude.

But anyway I'm not going to complain too much about not being able to run
the latest release of Solaris on my sparcbook without having everything
supported. There's nothing that solaris 8 offers to my sparcbook that 2.6
couldn't handle. Given that using an open source OS (i'm not syaing you
have to run OpenBSD... I'm just saying you should :) gives me the ability
to hack it all up if I want I'd just prefer to do that instead of waiting
of Tadpole to be kind... which they aren't required to do but appear to be
willing to do. 

regards,

neal
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