From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 10 4:18:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EFAB15376 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 04:18:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hafner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) Received: from hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ([131.159.0.200] EHLO hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ident: root [port 2567]) by tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de with ESMTP id <111615-13186>; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 13:18:30 +0000 Received: from hafner@localhost by hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de id <24230-809>; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 13:18:02 +0100 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Solaris References: From: Walter Hafner Date: 10 Dec 1999 13:18:01 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Peter McGarvey"'s message of "Fri, 10 Dec 1999 10:48:38 -0000" Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Peter McGarvey" writes: > To sum up... > > Solaris on SPARC is as good as FreeBSD on Intel. On an Intel Solaris comes > second. So if you can afford it get a decent Sun SPARC system. Failing > that use FreeBSD. Unless you got SMP. Solaris x86 SMP is _great_. Lightyears ahead of *BSD and Linux. I have two old dual processor P/200 machiens with 128 MB running Solaris 2.6 ... They are _fast_. In every other respect I second Peter. -Walter -- Dr. Walter Hafner Tel: 089/289-28187 WWW-Beauftragter, TU Muenchen Email: hafner@in.tum.de WWW: http://www.tum.de/~hafner/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message