Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:27:11 GMT From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: patrick@xinside.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC? Message-ID: <l03020900af29dc661146@[194.32.164.2]> In-Reply-To: <199702132216.PAA02367@chon.xinside.com> References: <199702132125.NAA18583@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> <Pine.GSO.3.95.970213110530.9550A-100000@aris> <199702132125.NAA18583@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>
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At 10:16 pm -0000 13/2/97, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: >[...] >Solaris won't capture the market, because they don't have a good >installation program. True, but not the main problem. Solaris won't capture the market because the SOB simply won't work on most hardware. With FreeBSD, you're having a very bad day if you can't just stuff the disks into a random PC and watch the thing install itself (I exaggerate only slightly). With Solaris, my experience is that you can forget it if the hardware doesn't conform in all respects to the letter of the "supported" list, and even then there's a good chance it won't play. Maybe if my clients had money to burn and bought Compaq, IBM, ... -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK
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