From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 12 19:13:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21510 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:13:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (libya-197.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.227.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21505 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:13:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA01536; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:14:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:14:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Karl Denninger cc: jgrosch@mooseriver.com, Marc Slemko , Warner Losh , jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris is free. In-Reply-To: <19980812082400.24443@mcs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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