Date: 15 Feb 2000 09:37:36 +0100 From: Juergen Nickelsen <jnickelsen@acm.org> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <x7hffauai7.fsf@goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de> In-Reply-To: Brooks Davis's message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2000 16:56:44 -0800" References: <MFEBJBLFEGCPNJPPNNIEOEAHCAAA.troy@picus.com> <20000214165644.B7643@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
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Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes: [Solaris] > 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. Same for me. I have worked quite a lot with Solaris during the last two years, and while I do prefer FreeBSD, most things with Solaris are just a matter of habit and taste, and once you get used to it, it is quite a nice system. Having one file per configuration item isn't that bad once you get used to it. (Setting the default gateway with "echo routername > /etc/defaultrouter" isn't easily beaten in terms of speed! :-) Set EDITOR=vi and vipw won't get back to you with nasty surprises. Most of the configuration things can be found with something like "find /etc -type f | xargs grep mumble". I did that a lot. That was way faster most of the time than calling up the Answerbook and yielded a definite answer. But still, sure, a real screamer box with FreeBSD would be great. [Like my PC at work. Which is running under NT. Sigh.] -- Juergen Nickelsen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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