SUMMARY : Is 4.1.4 worth it

From: Ted Beatie (tcb@cipr-diva.mgh.harvard.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 20 1995 - 15:35:47 CDT


Sorry folks, I meant to have this out a couple weeks ago, but I've been busy..

Orig message :

> I'm thinking of getting SunOS 4.1.4, and was wondering what people's
> thoughts/comments/ideas were..
> what does it have over 4.1.3? Are there "improvements"? New features?
> Bug fixes? security holes patched? anything substantially different?
> In short, is it worth it?

Basically, the feeling I got from the most folks was "no, it's not worth it
if you're not running on a HyperSparc chip machine, like the Sparc 20."

I also got "Yes, it's worth it. It has all the patches pre-installed and
is cleaner and more stable"

and "Maybe.. there's a shelltool fix, and PPP is better"

and some "Depends, you don't get much other than a few patches and bug fixes."

definately not 1
don't bother 5
yes, patches 4
maybe 2
ppp 1

But it would definately seem to be more in the don't bother category..

Thanks to :

Boyd Fletcher <boyd@ccpo.odu.edu>
Dave Fetrow <fetrow@biostat.washington.edu>
"Endre Polgar Technical Support Engineer ICON Ltd." <epolgar@petra.icon.hu>
Jim Wright <jwright@phy.ucsf.edu>
Mr S J Elliott <se@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Dave Mitchell <D.Mitchell@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
lorenzd@gcm.com (Daniel Lorenzini)
z055084@uprc.com (Kohler R. P. (Robert))
Paul Caskey <pcaskey@swcp.com>
spp@vx.com (Stephen Potter)
"Christopher L. Barnard" <cbarnard@cs.uchicago.edu>
asargusi@sbrsim.ed.dreo.dnd.ca (Ayrton Sargusingh)
Dan Stromberg - OAC-CSG <strombrg@autoinst.acs.uci.edu>



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