On December 18, Michael J. Miller Jr. wrote:
> 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.)

  Eeeek.  NIS operability as a reason to use Solaris.  Sounds like
their marketing is becoming more effective these days.  I wouldn't run
NIS if you paid me. :)

 At any rate, my SunOS systems (there were several hundred in a
previous life [job], only one left now) all ran NIS-free with seamless
DNS support and empty /etc/hosts files.  But I'll admit that I had
source code and a couple of other knowledgeable folks to work through
messes like that.

  SunOS4 off the CDROM sucks rocks.  What I'm trying to say is...I
think it's got far greater *potential* to be a good OS than Solaris
does.  I know, because I've done it...and the people who still work
there are *still* trying to do it with Solaris...and are failing
miserably.  It's very subjective, but that's what I'm basing this on.
Just wanted to be clear on that...


                         -Dave McGuire
                          mcguire@neurotica.com