7 engineers on Hacker News describe using SunOS first-hand: 1 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I have been using computers for over 30 years, and each and every one has issues, bugs, finicky bits that suck the life out of you”
regret · personal · 28304283409234 · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“wasn't nearly as nice to work with as SunOS on Sparc 10s.”
endorse · production · deerpig · 2017-02-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the brokenness of mmap (on SunOS 3.something, I think), was a real problem for us.”
regret · production · geophile · 2012-08-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my boss at the time refused to move to solaris from sunos (on his personal sparc, we moved to solaris at the company)”
neutral · production · jerrysievert · 2024-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had been using the SunOS and Solaris boxes at work”
neutral · production · bloopernova · 2023-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using unices for over 20 years now (first was ultrix, then truos, sunos, solaris, hpux, aix, linux, netbsd, freebsd, osx)”
neutral · production · 20 yr · GFK_of_xmaspast · 2014-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have been using Vim since the mid-nineties, in things like SunOS and HPUX.”
neutral · personal · coldtea · 2013-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?