Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!qmw-dcs!guinness!numb From: numb@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Matt Newman) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: UNIX vs. the world (again) (was: Compilation listing from Sun ...) Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 91 15:55:16 GMT References: <1991Jun15.143436.5574@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <25791@lanl.gov> <6373@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <25849@lanl.gov> Sender: usenet@dcs.qmw.ac.uk Reply-To: numb@cs.qmw.ac.uk Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: guinness.dcs.qmw.ac.uk X-Address: Computer Science Department, QMW, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS X-Phone: +44 71 975 5230 (direct dial) +44 81 980 6533 (fax) X-Quote: To imagine is everything. - Albert Einstein In <25849@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes: [ stuff deleted ] >upgrades, they pretty much all have to. That's the major source of >grief from my perspective - every Sun OS upgrade makes the system >slower (and brings my workstation down for 1-2 days during the upgrade). >The thing that most of the "system administrators" seem to spend most of >their time worrying about is the network - who knows why. >J. Giles Network installs of SunOS have usually taken between 45mins and 3 hours depending on the system, personally I find SunOS installs dead easy, as long as you approach them in a methodical way. -- Matt Newman