From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 13 05:52:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24776 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 05:52:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smok.apk.net (mail.apk.net [207.54.158.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA24769 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 05:52:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@junior.apk.net) Received: from junior.apk.net (stuart@junior.apk.net [207.54.158.20]) by smok.apk.net (8.9.1/8.9.1/ts-apk-rel.980722) with ESMTP id IAA07426; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:38:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by junior.apk.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA24263; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:38:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:38:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Stuart Krivis To: Nadav Eiron cc: FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: solaris is free. In-Reply-To: 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, Nadav Eiron wrote: > 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... They must have been having a bad day. :-) I didn't find x86 2.6 to be difficult to install. CDE works also. There _are_ some reasons for choosing x86. 1. You run Solaris SPARC and want a uniform environment. 2. You rely on SMP. x86 seems to be better at this than FreeBSD or Linux at this point. (No hard proof on this one, but it seems to be the case given our limited testing.) 3. You need a name-brand solution to sell to the bosses or customers. 4. You need someone to blame when things go wrong. :-) (Here boss, this is Jordan's phone #, talk to him about this problem... hehe) It is very nice to be able to say something like, "We isolated the problem to "x" and have called SunSoft. They said such and such and this is the estimated timetable for a solution. (There may be no solution, in which case you have trouble. But this could happen with anything.) -- Stuart Krivis stuart@krivis.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message