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A good operating system

Would maintain the consistency of its configuration itself and reject any attempts by system administrators to put it in an inconsistent state (whether intentional or inadvertent).

An installation routine is then merely a set of prompts for predetermined consistent values.

What we are saying is that on Solaris this consistency is maintained by administrator folk knowledge and on Linux and Windows by the user interface (of course an administrator on both Linux and Windows can still walk right round the checks in the user interface and screw things up for himself - this is often euphemistically called "in depth knowledge" or "expert level").

I think Sun has a different definition of the word "modern" from my definition. I would welcome a clarification of Sun's definition. However, I reject the notion that "power" and "user-friendliness" are mutually incompatible properties of a computer system.

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