From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 3 17:25:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from karon.dynas.se (karon.dynas.se [192.71.43.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80A1237B71A for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 17:25:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko@dynas.se) Received: (qmail 65880 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2001 01:25:47 -0000 Received: from spirit.sto.dynas.se (HELO spirit.dynas.se) (172.16.1.10) by 172.16.1.1 with SMTP; 4 Mar 2001 01:25:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 25350 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2001 01:25:45 -0000 Received: from explorer.rsa.com (10.81.217.59) by spirit.dynas.se with SMTP; 4 Mar 2001 01:25:45 -0000 Received: (from mikko@localhost) by explorer.rsa.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f241Pid73064; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 17:25:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 17:25:44 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi Message-Id: <200103040125.f241Pid73064@explorer.rsa.com> To: vcardona@home.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Considering FreeBSD Newsgroups: local.freebsd.questions References: <001001c0a40f$3f091b40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 10:24:55AM -0800 <20010303181923.A7927@marx.marvic.chum> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In local.freebsd.questions you write: >On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 10:24:55AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> 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. >Isn't Solaris x86 somewhat unstable? I heard that it had some serious >memory problems. The only stability problems I've seen with Solarix x86 was with a third-party NIC driver, and that was back in 2.5.1. Solaris is a nice OS, but a total memory hog compared to FreeBSD. It seems to like using swap a lot more too, even if you do install obscene amounts of memory. The bundled X server is also really good at eating memory (usually grows to 150MB where Xfree on FreeBSD stops at 35MB, given the same usage pattern). Combined with a really bad IDE driver (at least up to version 7, dunno about 8), this makes FreeBSD about twice as fast as Solaris, on off-the-shelf (i.e. cheap) PC hardware, for anything I use it for. That being said, I like solaris. I really do. Lots of nifty tools for development and debugging (really cool dynamic linker), good threads support and relatively bug free. Dog slow, yes, but stability problems, no. YMMV etc. $.02, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message