14 Mar
2017
14 Mar
'17
9:56 p.m.
SunOS wasn't multi threaded. Linux seems to have done that pretty well
without getting all bloated (unlike early Solaris releases, I can't
speak to the later ones).
Linux is just more mature, has had more people working on it (which is
both a good and a bad thing). And didn't have Sun's stick in the mud
approach to compat that made things like /proc in Solaris way way way
less useful than Linux' /proc.
So it's really hard to say.
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 11:51:47AM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote:
But how far along are we on the Linux timeline, and
how far along was Sun on
the SunOS timeline before they stopped developing it?
It's been 23 or so years since my first exposure to Linux.
SunOS started at 1.0 in 1983, and last release was just before 1995. 12
years in total. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS
Now, of course, I understand SunOS is based on BSD so there is a lot more
work invested in SunOS before Sun even started on it which adds another 10
years (maybe less) to the SunOS development timeline. But in reality, how
much of Linux was based on previous works?
Just a thought experiment, nothing more.
On 3/14/2017 11:38 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
>As someone who dedicated a bunch of his life to Unix, it pains me to say
>it but Linux is better than a lot of the Unix systems from back in the
>day. I loved SunOS but I wouldn't trade today's Linux for SunOS and I
>don't think there are very many people who would disagree.
>
>It got better than "good enough".
>
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