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From: Damon Hammis <squirrel@hammis.com>
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I much prefer Solaris for Sun vs Solaris for Intel.  I have a PIII 450
w/256 MB of RAM at home and idleing the system would be running in swap.
It seemed incredibly boggy and slow when I tried running it.  After about
a week of that I said forget it and put FreeBSD back on.

I love Solaris for what it can do.  I think that it is a very stable
operating system, but far too expensive for me or any business I would
run.  I think that you can get similar, if not better, performance and
functionality out of FreeBSD.

Just my $.02.

--Damon

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On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 keith@mail.telestream.com wrote:

> I know this is TOTALY off topic but since I've had zero response from the 
> 'Solaris on Intel' list, I'll post here in hopes that someone here has had
> some experience in this area.
> I'm looking into learning Solaris and can't at the time aquire an actual
> sun machine to do it. I have a spare P333 laying around that I'd like to
> use for this.
> My question is this. How different is the x86 version of Solaris from the
> version that runs on an actual Sun machine? I'd hate to waste my
> time learning it on x86 and have little or none of it port over to a true
> sun box when I get around to purchasing one. Obviously there would be
> hardware naming differences but other then that is it the same? Thanks for
> any reply. 
> 
> 
> Keith
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