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From: eho@clarity.princeton.edu (Eric Ho)
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Subject: Experiences with 4.1 beta ??
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 11 Mar 90 08:15:21 GMT
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Just want to know what people feel about SunOS 4.1 beta (still ?) so far
in terms of basic system facilities (e.g. things like VM, nfsd, lockd,
yp/name-resolver, ALM, scsi, serial line, tapemaster & smd drivers).  

I hope that this time Sun would really put serious resources (namely good
people) into this release though.  Personally, I rather prefer to have
basic system services *working* before they give us any new features -- I
mean what is the use of giving us Posix if they can't even give us
reliable/correctly-implemented VM, nfsd or lockd and users eventually
ended up with either a frequently-crashed system or unreliable system
services.

Eric Ho  
Princeton University
eho@clarity.princeton.edu