Re: Thinking about upgrading to Solaris 10
From: Greg Menke (gregm-news_at_toadmail.com)
Date: 01/23/05
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Date: 23 Jan 2005 12:29:44 -0500
"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> writes:
> >
> I'm sure the trivial input filter would have solved the problem if I
> had been able to find one or known how to write one. I found
> virtually nothing in Sun's documentation to guide me! What I did
> find didn't help or didn't work. HP laser printers are everywhere.
> If Solaris supplies anything in the way of support for them, it's
> practically invisible. I suspect that any printer that required both
> a carriage return and a linefeed for each line (I think that's most
> printers) would have presented similar problems.
>
> The solutions are probably obvious to the experienced sysadmin. To
> the newbie, it not obvious how to do it nor is it obvioius how to find
> out, other than to find someone who knows and ask him! I tried asking
> and was told about a filter called something like "unix-to-dos".
> Someone else promptly denounced that recommendation as an abomination!
> The docmentation tells you to install a filter but nothing about which
> filters are available, if any, and nothing about writing a filter.
>
> Installing and configuring printers is one of the areas where Windoze
> is clearly superior!
The only trouble I've had with getting jetdirect or lpt port HP
printers going with Solaris has been me setting things up wrong.
That, and I had to slow down the Ultra 60's parallel port so the
printer could keep up. For me, the total cost in time of working out
printer connectivity issues in Solaris has been about the same as
Windows.
Windows tries and sometimes suceeds in being inexperienced-friendly at
the cost of making harder things extremely difficult and
inflexibility. Solaris is not inexperienced-friendly, it tries to get
out of the way to let you do the harder things the way you need to. I
imagine many of the other unixes have the same philosophy- OS X
excepted.
One could apply your same argument to saying horses are superior to
cars because they don't need batteries. Clearly, its not possible to
make an informed judgement between the 2 operating systems without
reasonably equivalent experience with both.
It really amazes me that people install an OS and expect everything to
just fall into their lap. Installing an OS is sort of like installing
a new engine in a car- theres lots of little fiddly details you have
to know to make it work- the new engine doesn't come with a detailed
installation manual, the customer is SUPPOSED to come to the task with
enough experience and knowledge to do the job or a checkbook to pay
for the people who do. Lacking both, the customer has to figure it
out him/herself with as much help as they can get from others. And
that means the customer needs to ask specific questions about specific
problems and be prepared to do a good deal of often frustrating
homework to understand both.
Gregm
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