[rescue] Sun memo regarding Java

[Dave McGuire]

On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 07:40 PM, Frank Van Damme wrote:
>>>>   Why would anyone *ever* want to use such a management tool, even 
>>>> if
>>>> it were fast?  I see zero usefulness.
>>>
>>> Because metatool was missing and the tools for editing volume manager
>>> metadata changed between $oldversion and 9.0.  I gave up and learned
>>> the new command-line utilities.
>>
>> You are not alone.  Alot of people suddenly learned the command line
>> metadisk tools because of Solaris 9.  Some because SMC is like
>> running quake on an Atari 800, and some because it doesn't work
>> without inetd running :)
>
> This thread made me decide never to bother downloading and trying 
> solaris
> :-)

   That would be a bad decision.  Solaris is great.  (well, modern 
Solaris...pre-2.6 was useless for anything but playing around)  It's 
the default installer and management stuff that sucks.

      -Dave

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