From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jul 23 15:55:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DE0237BDC0 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:55:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rewted@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 21740 invoked by uid 0); 23 Jul 2000 22:55:29 -0000 Received: from as53-04-75.cas-kit.golden.net (HELO elite) (209.226.187.75) by mail.gmx.net with SMTP; 23 Jul 2000 22:55:29 -0000 Message-ID: <007801bff511$f74051e0$4bbbe2d1@elite> From: "rewted" To: Subject: Solaris vs. FreeBSD Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:53:21 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sun workstation equipped with Solaris is often used in University and research environments, usually Sun workstations are powerful machines. So the question is - in a caculation environment (modelling, graphing, etc.) is Solaris faster than FreeBSD? Assuming that FreeBSD is running on a Intel machine with equivalent frequency, memory, floating point, etc... as a Sun SPARCstation with Solaris installed. Is FreeBSD suitable for research institudes? - rewted ------------------------- #exclude rewted@gmx.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message