From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 14 00:47:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA15203 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 00:47:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cs.Technion.AC.IL (csa.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA15188 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 00:47:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nadav@csa.cs.technion.ac.il) Received: from csd.csa (csd [132.68.32.8]) by cs.Technion.AC.IL (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA20438; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:46:49 +0300 (IDT) Received: from localhost by csd.csa (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA08634; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:46:45 +0300 Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:46:45 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: Stuart Krivis cc: FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: solaris is free. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Stuart Krivis wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Nadav Eiron wrote: > > They must have been having a bad day. :-) I didn't find x86 2.6 to be > difficult to install. CDE works also. > > > There _are_ some reasons for choosing x86. > > 1. You run Solaris SPARC and want a uniform environment. > > 2. You rely on SMP. x86 seems to be better at this than FreeBSD or Linux > at this point. (No hard proof on this one, but it seems to be the case > given our limited testing.) > > 3. You need a name-brand solution to sell to the bosses or customers. > > 4. You need someone to blame when things go wrong. :-) (Here boss, this is > Jordan's phone #, talk to him about this problem... hehe) No. Their reason was: 5. You need an OS with sources! (they dumped NT in favour of Solaris/x86 since they didn't get a source license from M$). > > It is very nice to be able to say something like, "We isolated the problem > to "x" and have called SunSoft. They said such and such and this is the > estimated timetable for a solution. (There may be no solution, in which > case you have trouble. But this could happen with anything.) > > > > -- > > Stuart Krivis stuart@krivis.com > > Nadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message