From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 17 11:58:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7268816A41F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:58:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbronson@wixb.com) Received: from cheyenne.sixcompanies.com (cheyenne.sixcompanies.com [65.43.82.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EABB443D45 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:58:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbronson@wixb.com) Received: from dakota.sixcompanies.com (shadow.sixcompanies.com [10.43.82.173]) by cheyenne.sixcompanies.com (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAHBwuFW006059; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:58:56 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <7.0.0.16.2.20051117055945.01c766c8@wixb.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:00:04 -0600 To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" From: "J.D. Bronson" In-Reply-To: References: <1132111958.1410.16.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: Victor Watkins , FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org, kayo.granillo@sun.com Subject: RE: Solaris patches and Solaris Express X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:58:59 -0000 At 03:52 AM 11/17/2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >Hmmm, > > We run a lot of Solaris 8 and FreeBSD. I find Solaris 8 pretty >much the same speed as FreeBSD for what we do. However, one thing >is that we do not run X-windows on either our Solaris 8 or FreeBSD >systems, because they are servers and there is no need for it. > > I've generally not found trouble obtaining the patches for Solaris >I've needed, most of them are in the cluster patch, and the ones that >aren't yet are critical (such as the repaired ncsd program) are >available on the Internet on non-Sun-approved websites. > > The performance of Xorg/XFree86 vs Openwindows is greatly different >as you point out. It is possible to compile Xorg on Solaris 8, at >least Solaris x86 - I've heard of people doing it but I've never >done it myself. > >Ted Indeed. But this is not Solaris 10 - thats when all of this changed. -- J.D. Bronson Information Services Aurora Health Care - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Office: 414.978.8282 // Fax: 414.977.5299 -Taco Bell is *not* the Mexican Telephone Company-