From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 15:52:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E9937B405 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:52:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15yMCg-000K9V-00; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:52:26 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id AD46B11D4; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:35:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:35:40 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011029233540.B1617@raggedclown.net> References: <00a301c1606e$bc00e990$0a00000a@contactdish> <20011029134404.A92609@roman.mobil.cz> <006101c160cb$6619f7d0$0a00000a@contactdish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: <006101c160cb$6619f7d0$0a00000a@contactdish>; from anthony@atkielski.com on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:45:21PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:45:21PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > Solaris is free for use on up to 8-CPU > > machines AFAIK. > > I thought Solaris was a proprietary flavor of UNIX sold commercially by Sun, and > only available for Sun-supported platforms (??). > > In any case, Solaris smacks of proprietary software, and I'm really not in a > frame of mind to lock myself to yet another vendor. FreeBSD doesn't seem to be With some restrictions on the number of cpu's you have in your box you can download Solaris8 for nothing, or get it on CD for US$ 45. Having said that, I use Solaris8 a lot in my work, FreeBSD is a better way to go bearing in mind your comments ! -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message