Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:14:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> Cc: jgrosch@mooseriver.com, Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris is free. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808121913080.237-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19980812082400.24443@mcs.net>
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Karl Denninger wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 01:46:14AM -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: > > My guess is that Sun is beginning to feel the heat from FreeBSD and > > Linux. Last time I looked very few people we running Solaris on X86. Mayby > > they are starting to worry about all those older Sparc's running NetBSD. > > Frankly, FreeBSD + Afterstep on a Pentium Pro 200 makes a damn nice > workstation; I prefer it over Solaris. Ahh replace AS with KDE, and you've got a better workstation ;) Anyhow, I think Solaris still has some advantages over FreeBSD, including better SMP, and support for a better C++ compiler (nearly anything is better than gcc 2.7.2). Still not worth 20 bucks tho ;) - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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