Re: Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

[m.roth@xxxxxxxxx]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:52 PM,  <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

By the late nineties, RH 5.2 was nice and solid, and I was running that at
home.

      mark

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