From: mjkerpan@kerpan.com (Michael Kerpan)
Subject: [TUHS] How good a representative of System V is Solaris
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:00:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8dd2d95c0905281000w3ed4b4fdtf3ac8eea439d6234@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
As a long-time Linux user and a long time Unix history buff, I've been
wanting to "play" with classic Unix variants for quite some time.
Obviously, Research Unix up through V7 and the BSDs are readily
available and I've at least mucked around with them, but post-V7 AT&T
Unices have always been unavailable, at least at any price that I can
afford on my college student budget. Solaris, however, at least
started out as an implementation of SVR4 and is freely available. How
much of System V still lurks inside Solaris 10 (the last version to
include such traditional workstation elements as CDE and DPS in the X
server) and how much has been removed in favor of a more GNU-ish
userland experience? Is Solaris a good way to get a System V
experience without breaking either the bank or copyright law, or is
this a hopeless situation?
Mike
next reply other threads:[~2009-05-28 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-28 17:00 Michael Kerpan [this message]
2009-05-28 17:40 ` Larry McVoy
2009-05-29 8:34 ` Tim Bradshaw
2009-05-29 12:12 A P Garcia
2009-05-29 13:08 ` Tim Bradshaw
2009-05-29 13:32 ` Brantley Coile
2009-05-30 0:20 ` Michael Kerpan
2009-05-30 1:51 ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-30 9:10 ` Wesley Parish
2009-05-30 2:15 ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-30 13:47 Pepe
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