David Kirkby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently I was looking to put another operating system on a Sun for > testing and someone suggested using SunOs 4.1.4, since it is still used > a fair amount.
I think you've been somewhat misinformed there. Even in the incredibly Sun-heavy and very slow-moving academic environment here at Stanford, we retired our last SunOS system over a year ago. Support for its K&R compiler has been widely discontinued in many major software packages, as has support for its pre-ANSI C library and header files. Almost no one developing free software still has a working SunOS system. I recommend putting NetBSD on the system instead; that should be much more up-to-date in terms of operating system and C library functionality and much easier to deal with. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
