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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Snakebytes (long -- and poisonous?).
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Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <1998@kuling.UUCP> <32580010@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com> <31@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 91 22:38:28 GMT

In article <31@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
> HP-UX or any other SysV based OS is too painful to administrate.

What have you been smoking? I want some.

BSD system administration hasn't changed significantly since V7. You still
have to add drivers by editing makefiles, one way or the other. Compared to
the System V sysadm stuff, and the idmk* programs, it's like stone knives
and bear skins.

And where Berkeley *has* innovated in system administration it's not done
such a good job. I'm no big fan of MMDF, but next to sendmail.cf it's a
masterpiece of clarity. We have some SPARCstations here and I'm dreading
hooking them into the mail network.
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