Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:46:45 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.Technion.AC.IL> To: Stuart Krivis <stuart@apk.net> Cc: FreeBSD hackers mailing list <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: solaris is free. Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.980814104538.8587A-100000@csd> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980813082429.21762A-100000@junior.apk.net>
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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Stuart Krivis wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Nadav Eiron wrote: > > They must have been having a bad day. :-) I didn't find x86 2.6 to be > difficult to install. CDE works also. > > > There _are_ some reasons for choosing x86. > > 1. You run Solaris SPARC and want a uniform environment. > > 2. You rely on SMP. x86 seems to be better at this than FreeBSD or Linux > at this point. (No hard proof on this one, but it seems to be the case > given our limited testing.) > > 3. You need a name-brand solution to sell to the bosses or customers. > > 4. You need someone to blame when things go wrong. :-) (Here boss, this is > Jordan's phone #, talk to him about this problem... hehe) No. Their reason was: 5. You need an OS with sources! (they dumped NT in favour of Solaris/x86 since they didn't get a source license from M$). > > It is very nice to be able to say something like, "We isolated the problem > to "x" and have called SunSoft. They said such and such and this is the > estimated timetable for a solution. (There may be no solution, in which > case you have trouble. But this could happen with anything.) > > > > -- > > Stuart Krivis stuart@krivis.com > > Nadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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