From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 16 14:03:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA19788 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 14:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA19777 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 14:03:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id XAA11514; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 23:00:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA26010; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:55:58 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970916225558.19575@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:55:58 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Chuck Robey Cc: Annelise Anderson , Paul Griffith , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice Needed - Unix System Admin References: <19970916181757.07680@klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Tue, Sep 16, 1997 at 04:15:50PM -0400 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-970911-SNAP SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Sep 16, 1997 at 04:15:50PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > Actually, so does Sun's Solaris, I think, the X86 version. It's cheap, > and it comes closer even than Linux. Sorta depends on a student's budget > ... you ever heard of a student with enough cash to spend? Sun gives away Solaris 2.x *sources* for copy costs, about $100. So shouldn't it be possible, that a student gets a binary release ? -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html