[OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

[Jerry Kemp]

I mostly recall seeing that statement around the transition period from
SunOS 4.x (later called Solaris 1.x) to SunOS 5.x (Solaris 2.x).  This
was where Sun transitioned from a BSD style Unix to the AT&T Sys V style
Unix.

Also, admins were accustomed to the BSD userland, and not happy about
the other changes occurring to.  If you look at the Solaris FAQ from
Casper Dik, there are still references from admins not happy about
losing the BSD rc files (i.e. rc, rc.network, rc.local) and getting
stuck with the Sys V rc directories, each directory filled with files.

Jerry


On 06/22/11 11:41, Gregory Youngblood wrote:

> 
> Slowaris or slowalrus predates Solaris 9 I'm afriad. I remember that term being toss about back in 2.4-2.6 days. That's where I learned about it. :)
>