From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 11:45: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B378E37B405 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 11:44:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr364-a19.otenet.gr [195.167.109.51]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5NIioFr013665 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 21:44:53 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g5NIinIm033748 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 21:44:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g5NGjViR027884; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 19:45:31 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 19:45:30 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Steve Warwick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [OFF] FreeBSD vs Solaris - Opinions? Message-ID: <20020623164529.GA26156@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5vNYLRcllDrimb99" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On 2002-06-23 01:43 +0000, Steve Warwick wrote: > Sorry for the off topic post but I am interested to get some > different opinions on the "which is better FreeBSD or Solaris?" > topic. Everyone I know is pro Sun so I'm trying to get a balanced > view. > > Actually, to clarify my situation: > > Which, in your opinion would make a better server. Sun UltrSparc 5 / > 333mhz running Solaris (I got a great deal on a couple of machines) > or a generic Athlon 1.2mhz running FreeBSD. [both machines have ATA > drives & 256meg] > > Your thoughts and expert opinions welcomed, including the peripheral > topics of support, usergroups etc. Both have their good and bad points. You might want to use the old SWAT trick. Grab a page of a4 paper, and split it in four equal regions, with one vertical and one horizontal line. Start writing advantages of operating systems on the top part, Solaris on the left, FreeBSD on the right. Then disadvantages of them both, on the bottom part of the page. After a while, having asked and researched both the good and bad things that you can find, try to make a balanced decision. Some things are bound to be more important than the rest. A few of the good points of each operating system are listed on their respective homepages. Both technical and non-technical things can be found at http://www.FreeBSD.org about FreeBSD. What can be considered as an advantage, and what is definitely a disadvantage depends highly on your specific needs and requirements. Could you elaborate a bit on that part? Then, there are a lot of people on this list and resources online that wecan point you for more details... - Giorgos --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9Ffso1g+UGjGGA7YRApfYAJwJOZP9RCzg9WfLU4I+lJLMN9UFXwCghGUh MAMDOztINf0pj1/IK+o1W44= =lb2s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5vNYLRcllDrimb99-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message