From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 12 16:28:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04215 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:28:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04195 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:28:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA25510; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:10:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808122310.QAA25510@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Terry Lambert Cc: joerg@krdl.org.sg (Joerg Micheel), jgrosch@mooseriver.com, marcs@znep.com, imp@village.org, jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris is free. Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:10:29 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 23:01:32 +0000 (GMT) Terry Lambert wrote: > If they were selling SunOS for $10 instead of Solaris, then you > might have a point. I think there is a lot of Sun hardware running > NetBSD because people are nostalgic for the feel of the old SunOS. More like: They have these good old workhorse machines, and they want to run an OS that doesn't suck, in constrast to SunOS and Solaris. If I wanted the nostalgia of running SunOS, I'd run SunOS. (Hey, I still have a machine that runs 4.2BSD...) Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-5 Work: +1 650 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 650 940 5942 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message