On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On December 18, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> > >   They have Solaris "right"?  Still looks like a hunk of s**t to me.
> > 
> > 2.6 is as good as 4.1.3/4 ever was. Still has a few things that
> > need tweaking but its stable.
> 
>   We're getting into religious territory here...I'll just politely say
>   that, having used a lot of both, I disagree...However, I'll admit
>   that a lot of my objections to Solaris are matters of preference and
>   opinion.

At least you have far better control of how NIS,NIS+, files and in the 
case of hosts DNS interact.  SunOS 4.X really sucked in this regard.
Heck, you couldn't even use DNS without a NIS server.  (Ok, so there 
were libc hacks that mostly worked around the problem, I don't view that
as a clean solution.)

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