From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 14 18:29:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 673AC3D3A for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:29:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.105.241] (helo=propro) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12KXjw-000MH0-00; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 02:29:25 +0000 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 03:29:24 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Schneiders To: Troy Settle Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! In-Reply-To: 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 Mon, 14 Feb 2000, 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! This is not uncommon in BSD either :-) See e.g. OpenBSD /etc/mygate. -- Marc Schneiders marc@venster.nl http://zelf.net marc@oldserver.demon.nl propro 3:26am up 7 days, 5:37, load average: 2.33 2.09 2.07 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message