From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 15 8:44:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE5537B815 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:44:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: from localhost (lplist@localhost) by q.closedsrc.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7FFf7a83102; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:41:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:41:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: j mckitrick Cc: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! In-Reply-To: <20000815163646.A39188@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, j mckitrick mumbled: > What clock speed is that CPU? And what kind of apps are run on a > workstation of this type? I guess i'm just wondering what people use > SOlaris machines for besides servers. WHat do they do well that windows > machines don't do well? We use a Solaris Ultra 10 as both a server and a workstation. As a server, we run qmail and Apache+IBM WebSphere for development and testing. As a workstation, we have one or two people who constantly do Java development and want a reference build of Java to work off of. I'd personally take the money it costs for an Ultra 10 and build a nice x86 (or even an Alpha) workstation. Anywho... you can get a PCi card for the Ultra 5 (and I think the Ultra 10) that allows you to run Windows on your SPARC machine :-) It's slow as heck, that's for sure! // Linh Pham // http://closedsrc.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message