Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:20:53 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.Technion.AC.IL> To: chris/reman <z2172268@student.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>, Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>, FreeBSD hackers mailing list <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: solaris is free. Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.980813111548.26531C-100000@csd> In-Reply-To: <35D1A991.26389012@student.unsw.edu.au>
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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, chris/reman wrote: > Nick Hibma wrote: > > > To be honest, x86 SOlaris has always been a bit a forgotten child in the > > Sun family. Sun likes to ship complete systems they can reliably > > support. Giving supports to PC weenies is not one of their favourite > > hobbies. > > Thats funny, because the uni. where I am at (UNSW, Sydney) the comp sci > labs were originally running (and still is) a mix of decstations and > labtams running SunOS, when they redid their workstations upstairs they > bought p200's and stuck x86 SunOS on them, weird eh. Personally I would > have saved the money bought cheaper workstations and stuck linux or > freebsd on them, but what can you do when your only an undergrad, and > your uni purchasing scheme is up $h*t creek. Here they use Solaris (on SPARC) for almost anything (including the machine I use to write this email). When they wanted an OS with sources they went and paid some $10000 or some such for an educational source license for Solaris/x86 (though normally they use Sun hardware too). The fact that on the day they were supposed to receive the CD Sun backed off the deal and wanted another ~$10000 didn't bother them at all :-( I tell you, many times, being a PhD student sucks just as bad... It was kind of funny though, because I was installing FreeBSD for a friend in the same room where they were installing Solaris/x86. Eventhough they were installing from a CD on a PII/300MHz and I was installing over FTP from the other end of the world on a P5/90MHz, I had fvwm95 and Netscape running before they managed to have Solaris even boot. Took them another month to make CDE work... > > Then again I spose they were going for tried and tested, (insert remark about > tired and bested here) > > regards, chris > > -- > Christopher Day > > E-Mail the_reman@hotmail.com > Homepage http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/1218 > > when the rain/when the children reign/keep your conscience in the dark > melt the statues in the park - Fall On Me, REM > > Nadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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