From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 14 16:26:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cliff.i-plus.net (cliff.i-plus.net [209.100.20.42]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BEBE4CE1 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 16:14:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from phat (77.dialup19.picus.com [207.7.91.134]) by cliff.i-plus.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA94327 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:14:23 -0500 (EST) From: "Troy Settle" To: Subject: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:13:37 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Today, I had my first experience with Solaris. Had to install and configure it. This is like asking a rank-amature mac user to install and configure Windows NT 3.51. Solaris is a joke! The installation process asked for some networking stuff, but never bothered to ask for a default route. Had to put this in manually at first, but later found out that you had to create /etc/defaultrouter (or some such crap). What a configuration scheme... one directive per file. OUCH! Then, I went to add a user. This went ok, but when I went to use chpass to edit the user information, I see that it's not in root's default path (still haven't figured out where they have it). Had to use vipw, which pulled up some lame-ass GUI editor by default. Talk about nasty. I'd rather use ee. Can anyone tell me just how the hell Sun manages to sell this crap? Or are people addicted to the hardware, and suffer the OS for that reason? *sigh* I'd just as soon trade this thing in for a beefy FreeBSD box (or even NT!), but the software we gotta run is only for Solaris. -Troy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message