On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:45 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
The first time I was doing sysadmin work was on a sparcserver, back in '95-'97, and I really, really liked that box. I agree, it was a real shame.
Yeah, but fast forward another year or two and you had an extremely buggy OS (not a problem by itself, everything was back then) and it was cheaper to go buy a faster PC and run linux than it would have been to get the bugfixes for the OS. What did they expect to happen?
Not in the mid/late nineties. Sun 3 was nice and solid (I used it, along with Irix mostly, through the early/mid-nineties). Solaris 6.3 == Sun 3; Solaris 6.4 was the next release, and was perfectly fine and solid.
I was stuck with some version of Solaris 5, expired support and no free bug fixes.
By the late nineties, RH 5.2 was nice and solid, and I was running that at home.
At some point, our mailserver broke and I copied the sendmail configs over to a linux box, restored some backups to it and never looked back. Wasn't really happy with RH until 7.3, but that was rock solid.