From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Dec 27 03:23:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA06809 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 03:23:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.bodensee.com (mail.bodensee.com [212.62.192.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA06772 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 03:22:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de) Received: from gw1.bodensee.com (root@gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.39]) by mail.bodensee.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA22513; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 12:22:03 +0100 Received: from duffner.surf24.de (surf242.surf24.de [212.62.193.242]) by gw1.bodensee.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA04119; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 12:22:02 +0100 Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 12:06:36 +0100 (MEZ) From: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: Free Solaris To: Rick Hamell cc: FreeBSD-Newbies , Dennis Favro In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 X-Organization: enigma, http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~enigma X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.46] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id DAA06777 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun 27 Dec, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > > > Ok, I've had some time to muck about with FreeBSD and its been > > going pretty well. So now I've notice this free Solaris program > > offered by Sun and I'm wondering if its worth trying. > I could be wrong, but I believe Solaris only works on Sun Nope, there is Solaris/x86 - and you get it together with the SPARC-CD when you order the education-promo. Solaris on IA64 will be supported much more by SUN than the current IA32-release. > hardware. FreeBSD runs on Intel, Alpha, and soon Sun. OpenBSD will run on > anything. :) > Solaris and FreeBSD are going to be equally hard to use at first. > Once you learn one though, the other will be pretty simple. I'm just looking for a nice 9 Gig SCSI HD to try out both Solaris and Linux/Oracle. Is there a Netcape-Version for Solaris/x86, btw ? cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | Achtung: rainer.duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de | |(die alte E-Mail Adresse) verfällt zum 31.12.98 | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message