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Re: Before we meet



> 
> if you're allready speaking about Solaris, i wanted to check out a few things
> about it:
> 1. in what really does it differ from previous SunOs edditions.
> 2. is it really as unstable as people say it is ? (a friend of mine
>     who works in TAU told me about a solaris system that crashes "every day".
>     i didn't know if to take him literally or not).
> thanks in advance,
> guy keren
> 

	Guy,

	I have a LOT of experience with Solaris on Sparc, and also
	experience with Solaris on x86.

	Answer 1 - SunOS4 is BSD system (pure BSD I think), while
	SunOS5 is SVR4 - licensed sources of SVR4.0 from USL. If you
	want to be more specific on either user, sysadm or programmer
	level - tell me.

	Answer 2 - SunOS 5.0 is almost inexistent, SunOS 5.1 can be con-
	sidered beta, SunOS 5.2 is stable but slow, 5.3 is stable and
	fast, but some critical bugs must be patched with Sun mandatory
	patches. On lowe end (Classic, LX) 5.3 is more stable than on
	high end (SS10, Sparc Center etc.)

	Current releases are 5.1 for x86 and 5.3 for Sparc. 5.4 (syn-
	chrionized) is expected in August, and it will include Motif
	environment, COSE environment expected ater this year.


					Regards,

						Mark ZUsman