[rescue] Recommended patches for old versions (why)

[laz at moaa.net]

on that note:

anybody have patches for SunOS 4.0.1 for my Sun 2/120?
:-)

Matt

> 
> "Loomis, Rip" wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I'm all for continuing to run *good* older versions of operating
> > systems--but I've never met anyone who actually can defend Solaris
> > 2.x where x<5 -- and it's not really until about Solaris 7
> > (SunOS 5.7) that there are enough fixes and Good Things to make
> > me happy with running it in production.
> > 
> 
> Don't anyone to think I'm doing this in *production* ROFL.
> This is the rescue group right?
> 
> Just like I collect old Sun hardware, I collect old Sun software.
> Sometimes it's fun to load up an old release just to see what
> it was like (or how bad it was in some cases).  For the sake
> of completeness, I'd also like the best patches for each release.
> 
> Another reason for running old releases could be nostalgic
> (i.e. to recreate an old environment or configuration).  I hope
> I'm not the only one who does this :)
> 
> As for "production" environments, there might still be
> more 2.6 instances still in use than all other versions
> combined (I think that was true 2 years ago). Sun4 machines
>  can only run up to 2.4 (or sunos4 or netbsd...).  2.4 was
> actually pretty good.
> 
> Here's my foggy memory on the "suitablilty" of early solaris
> releases:
> 
> 2.0 Nope
> 2.1 Very buggy, many drivers missing
> 2.2 First viable production release (though still many problems)
> 2.3 Many improvements, wide-spread adoption
> 2.4 Solid stable release
> 2.5 Added features (CDE on supplement disk)
> 2.5.1 added support for U1
> 2.6 Performance imporvements, UE support, rock solid reliablilty
> probably the most widely deployed release ever.
> 
> and so on.
> 
> Am I even close?
> 
> KL
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