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Re: backward compatability of tools
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: backward compatability of tools |
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Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:38:52 -0800 |
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David Kirkby <address@hidden> writes:
> Recently I was looking to put another operating system on a Sun for
> testing and someone suggested using SunOs 4.1.4, since it is still used
> a fair amount.
I think you've been somewhat misinformed there. Even in the incredibly
Sun-heavy and very slow-moving academic environment here at Stanford, we
retired our last SunOS system over a year ago. Support for its K&R
compiler has been widely discontinued in many major software packages, as
has support for its pre-ANSI C library and header files. Almost no one
developing free software still has a working SunOS system.
I recommend putting NetBSD on the system instead; that should be much more
up-to-date in terms of operating system and C library functionality and
much easier to deal with.
--
Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
- backward compatability of tools, Dr. David Kirkby, 2003/02/16
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Paul Eggert, 2003/02/17
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Dr. David Kirkby, 2003/02/18
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Paul Eggert, 2003/02/18
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Dr. David Kirkby, 2003/02/18
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Alex Hornby, 2003/02/19
- Re: backward compatability of tools, Paul Eggert, 2003/02/19
- Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools, Bruce Korb, 2003/02/19
- Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools, John W. Eaton, 2003/02/19
- Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools, Bob Friesenhahn, 2003/02/19