From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 13 01:21:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25673 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 01:21:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cs.Technion.AC.IL (csa.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25664 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 01:21:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nadav@csa.cs.technion.ac.il) Received: from csd.csa (csd [132.68.32.8]) by cs.Technion.AC.IL (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id LAA03275; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:21:02 +0300 (IDT) Received: from localhost by csd.csa (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA27558; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:20:54 +0300 Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:20:53 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: chris/reman cc: Nick Hibma , Josef Grosch , FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: solaris is free. In-Reply-To: <35D1A991.26389012@student.unsw.edu.au> 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 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