From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 3 15:50:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA19947 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 15:50:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Proxy.metro.tas.com.au ([147.109.165.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA19923 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 15:50:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kerry.morse@metrotas.com.au) Received: from mttmail.metro.tas.com.au (MTTMail.metro.tas.com.au [147.109.164.249]) by Proxy.metro.tas.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA00508 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 08:50:25 +1000 (EST) Received: by MTTMail.metro.tas.gov.au with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 08:50:27 +1000 Message-ID: <02B01380C828D1119ED70020AF641C530A1DD1@MTTMail.metro.tas.gov.au> From: Kerry Morse To: "'Doug White'" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: freebsd vs solaris Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 08:50:24 +1000 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > does anyone may compare freebsd to solaris? Ok... I 'HAD TO' swap our primary web server over from a FreeBSD 3.0 (Testing) to Solaris 2.6... The new machine got a processor upgrade(Cyrix P200MX), for me the older box was faster, (it is a DX2/66) more stable and I still use it when the Solaris box falls over.. > which one is serving better, which one is supported more? FreeBSD does a darn good job for the money. Solaris you can get commerical support on; FreeBSD has this mailing list. I've got replies back from the FreeBSD questions list and had things fixed, I've also emailed Sun about a problem I had with the the boot floppy for solaris and received a reply back.. So support about the same.. > which one is more common on internet? which one is more stable? Dunno on #1, #2 I would say FreeBSD, although I have no experience with Solaris x86 so I can't say. Generally I'd expect FreeBSD, compare Solaris Sparc and it might be a bit different... > which one is easier to set up? which one supports more hardware? Probably equal here. I'd almost have to say Solaris here.. Sorry guys (and gals???).. > which one uses hardware more effectively? Again probably equal. Nope... FreeBSD... Much more tightly coupled to the hardware, Solaris just 'laggggs'... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message