Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 16:56:44 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Troy Settle <troy@picus.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <20000214165644.B7643@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <MFEBJBLFEGCPNJPPNNIEOEAHCAAA.troy@picus.com>; from troy@picus.com on Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 07:13:37PM -0500 References: <MFEBJBLFEGCPNJPPNNIEOEAHCAAA.troy@picus.com>
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 07:13:37PM -0500, Troy Settle wrote: > > 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! The default configuration of a solaris box is kinda lame, but there are number of things like about it's installer over sysinstall. I've found that the steepest part of the learning curve for Solaris is in the initial setup phase. It's much easier if you have someone to ask about the quirks. > 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. I assume that GUI think was dtedit or something like it. My first rule of surviving Solaris is don't run CDE. In fact, don't run CDE is probably my first three rules. ;-) Infact, if the box has work to do, running X is generally a bad idea without tons of RAM. I've seen the X server hit more then 150MB on my Ultra 10. Add that to netscape and staroffice with a powerpoint presentation open and you'll swap a 256MB system to death. > 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. It's frankly not that bad. The big hardware is very nice in a number of applications and once you're use to the OS it's not that hard to live with. I'd certaintly take it over NT, and quite possiably over Linux, but I'd rather have an equivelently priced FreeBSD box built to my specs then the Ultra 10 in my office. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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