[csw-users] Why support Solaris 8 onwards?

[Ihsan Dogan]

on 14.09.2007 23:41 Ben Taylor said the following:

> I, for one, do not understand why blastwave insists on supporting a
> 7 year old operating system as it's base.  the amount of bad press
> blastwave gets for it's bloat (especially on solaris 9, 10 and nevada
> based systems) out weighs it's usefulness to the marginal fringe who
> insist on staying on Solaris 8.  Solaris 8 is dead for intensive purposes.
> Yeah, there are folks running Win 3.1 and Win 95 and Win98 and Solaris
> 2.5.1, 2.6 and 7.  so what. 

It's true that nobody is installing Solaris 8 anymore, but it's still
widely used and they are not going to be replaced that quickly. I don't
see any reason, why we should drop the support for Solaris 8



Ihsan

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