From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 3 10:25:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B8337B71C for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 10:25:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f23IOtN15652; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 10:24:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: , Cc: Subject: RE: Considering FreeBSD Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 10:24:55 -0800 Message-ID: <001001c0a40f$3f091b40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: <20010303142158.A16878@linux.rainbow> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Igor Robul >I don't have URL, because you need logon to Solaris Developer >Connection. Free registration. > >Ok, you can try find Solaris8 images with some ftp search engine. >Look for Solaris8-CD1-iso-image > >But this is not Solaris list :-) > >Ok, don't expect very much from Solaris on Intel platform. It supports >much less hardware than FreeBSD org Linux. > Nonsense! I've run Solaris on Intel for a while and it supports plenty of hardware, although less "desktop" hardware than "server" hardware. But, I don't see that it's any more stable than FreeBSD and the lack of source is a detriment compared to FreeBSD. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message