Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.2 Message-ID: <22237@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 7 Jun 91 07:32:17 GMT References: <933@lhdsy1.chevron.com> <1560@loki.une.oz.au> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 28 In article <1560@loki.une.oz.au> mark@loki.une.oz.au (Mark Garrett) writes: > From article <933@lhdsy1.chevron.com>, by yzarn@lhdsy1.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille): > > In article <1991Jun04.030107.25038@decuac.dec.com> avolio@decuac.dec.com writes: > >>In article ajc@thendara.pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento) writes: > > > > Yeah! But I wish it *were* an update! I want an update! Do you know how > > much man-days we are going to spend to install 4.2 on all our machines?? > > Grrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!! > > > Can anybody tell me whats so good about 4.2 that I should upgrade. > I have 4.1 running quite nicely. It will take quite a lot of time to get things > back to normal after an upgrade! Well, see Appendix B of the release notes. If you're really happy with 4.1 then there is probably minimal reason to upgrade, with the most notable improvements being (finally) the current MIPS C-compiler and X11R4 based servers. On the other hand, if you're like me and still running 3.1C and waiting/hoping for a more gain than pain 4.X release then 4.2 looks pretty decent. Overall, after scanning the release notes, it looks like a pretty nice release. Some of the ancient bugs fixed, new hardware support, new facilities and some rough edges trimmed off of the 4.x features. It even looks liked they fixed the > 8 groups NFS bug! -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)