From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 1:42:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D0337B400 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:42:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.126.181.111]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020623084235.BOZB1547.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@[192.168.1.100]> for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 08:42:35 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:43:48 -0700 Subject: [OFF] FreeBSD vs Solaris - Opinions? From: Steve Warwick To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, Sorry for the off topic post but I am interested to get some different opinions on the "which is better FreeBSD or Solaris?" topic. Everyone I know is pro Sun so I'm trying to get a balanced view. Actually, to clarify my situation: Which, in your opinion would make a better server. Sun UltrSparc 5 / 333mhz running Solaris (I got a great deal on a couple of machines) or a generic Athlon 1.2mhz running FreeBSD. [both machines have ATA drives & 256meg] Your thoughts and expert opinions welcomed, including the peripheral topics of support, usergroups etc. Thanks, Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message