From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 10:29: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from solaris.matti.ee (solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A2CE37B9CF for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:28:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vallo@myhakas.matti.ee) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.114.87]) by solaris.matti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC782CE69; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:28:38 +0200 (EET) Received: (from vallo@localhost) by myhakas.matti.ee (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id TAA08018; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:28:37 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:28:37 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Dion E Viglione Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOLARIS VS FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000628192837.A7618@myhakas.matti.ee> Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: <000801bfe004$1b936a00$55ae73d1@ppp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <000801bfe004$1b936a00$55ae73d1@ppp>; from dionv@spots.ab.ca on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:51:21AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:51:21AM -0600, Dion E Viglione wrote: > Solaris 8 is now "open" and free. Sun told me that it is the superior UNIX of all UNICES--to end all UNICES! (--to that effect) > And-- > Solaris' kernel algorithm design is suppose to be better than BSD's. I want to learn UNIX, but computer scientists predict Linux will gradually fade away, leaving BSD; but now Solaris is free--won't that "crush" BSD? Won't everyone flock to Solaris? > Should I now uninstall my OpenBSD? > > Please help me with guidance. > > --D Viglione, very confused student who wants to have faith in BSD, again. > > I got the impression from Sun that they have never heard of FreeBSD! Does that mean FreeBSD is not good enough for large corporations? I'm running SunOS 5.8 for about a month now, mainly because I want to learn how to operate with Sys V systems. My backgound has been mostly BSD centric, not to mention first steps in Slackware Linux. SunOS is slow compared to FreeBSD on the same hardware, even with filesystems mounted async. It seems to me that Sun has been put developers energy mostly into SPARC platform not Intel. Despite the fact that SunOS support for MP machines is far better from FreeBSD, I've yet to see improvements in my compile times or such and I'm running MP machine. I think that SunOS can be good for SPARC platform, but for x86 you are still better off with *BSD or Linux. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message