Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@wrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: SunOS vs. Ultrix comparison Keywords: SunOS shareable libraries Message-ID: <1991Jan24.074910.6738@pa.dec.com> Date: 24 Jan 91 07:49:10 GMT References: <8012@castle.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Distribution: comp Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 22 Sharable libraries are a huge win, period. Ultrix does not have them yet and I consider this an embarrassment. OSF/1 has them, so at a time no later than when a version of Ultrix is based on OSF/1, Ultrix will have shared libraries. (Not speaking as a Digital employee here.) If you don't like Makefiles, you have a different sort of problem. With shared libraries, your Makefiles become even more important since there are many fiddlin' details about creating and linking with shlibs that simply cannot be done by hand. Make is your friend -- trust me. If you can get over the initial "why did they make it so complicated?" doubts, you'll embrace Make and wonder how you ever did without it. Ultrix is very good about 8-bit support. They've also fixed things like backspace not working when echo is off; in general, a user gets what they expect from the Ultrix tty system. I don't know how well SunOS is doing in this area. Probably it depends on how many systems they sell overseas. Cheers, -- Paul Vixie DEC Western Research Lab Palo Alto, California ...!decwrl!vixie