From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 17:28:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06831 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:28:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06823 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:28:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA23880; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:27:29 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199801292327.XAA23880@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Dave Marquardt cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UNIX In-reply-to: Your message of "29 Jan 1998 07:46:54 CST." <85d8hbo0j5.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:27:29 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" > David writes: > > The question that I have is by lraening FreeBSD will I be able to more > > to a ture UNIX system ie: solaris? > > I'll assume you mean "true". I think FreeBSD is just as "real" as > Solaris when it comes to UNIX systems. In fact, having started my > UNIX career on UNIX V7 and 4.1 BSD, I find FreeBSD a lot "truer" UNIX > than Solaris any day. I'd tend to agree. I've recently had the pleasure of *using* several Solaris boxen. The advantage IMHO is the hardware, not the OS. I've had no problems finding my way 'round Solaris from an administrative point of view. Everything's very BSD'ish for a SYSV machine :-) > -Dave -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....