From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Dec 26 17:32:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23086 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 17:32:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23081 for ; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 17:32:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from direct-source.com.direct-source.com (ppp116.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.116]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA18631; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 17:29:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 17:18:02 -0800 () From: Rick Hamell To: Dennis Favro cc: FreeBSD-Newbies Subject: Re: Free Solaris In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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'm curious, but is Solaris a difficult thing to use? Or would it > be easier to learn and a nice way to get into UNIX? > > (I prefer the philosophy behind FreeBSD, and I'd stick with it as > my operating system of choice -- but the learning curve is pretty > steep for someone who's making the leap into UNIX from the MacOS) I could be wrong, but I believe Solaris only works on Sun 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. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message