From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 16 17:34:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA00420 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 17:34:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [206.246.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA00411 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 17:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [206.246.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA06363; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:33:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:33:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Andreas Klemm cc: Annelise Anderson , Paul Griffith , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice Needed - Unix System Admin In-Reply-To: <19970916225558.19575@klemm.gtn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Andreas Klemm wrote: > 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 ? No. That offer of Sun's was bogus, I _am_ a student, I tried, they told me I would have to get it thru the University. If the university of Maryland wouldn't buy it for me (fat chance) then, no. > > -- > 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 > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------