[rescue] Happy New Year! RIP, Sun/Solaris...

[Robert Darlington]

My first impulse was to go with Linux but the latest version I could find
for this platform was years old (Ubuntu 7 or so).  I want something I can
reasonably keep up to date without a lot of trouble.  I don't know the inner
workings of apt or yum, nor the repo maintenance schedule for Ubuntu 7 for
sparc to know if keeping it up to date is possible.  It very well might be a
matter of doing a "yum update" but I don't know.  I have no particular
interest in west coast unix but don't have any problem with it either.   I'm
pretty used to updating the ports tree.

-Bob

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>wrote:

> On 01/02/11 13:43, Scott Quinn wrote:
> > As far as other OSes I'm becoming more and more a proponent of the xBSDs.
> > There seems to be much less "rattling of the apple cart" from there than
> Linux
> > has. Sadly you do need to know your text consoles to use it, and (except
> for
> > the efforts to get ZFS on BSD) the filesystems aren't as advanced.
>
> Frankly, the entire *BSD userspace is a bit on the primitive side.  What
> I don't understand about this is that the true *BSD zealots (of which
> there fortunately seem to be none on the list that I am aware of) appear
> to regard it as a point of pride.
>
> "Diff, patch, and vi are effete.  When I were a lad, we patched our
> kernel code with ed, and we LIKED it!"
>
>
>
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>  Phil Stracchino, CDK#2     DoD#299792458     ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355
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