Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:31:17 +0200 From: Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org> To: Dion E Viglione <dionv@spots.ab.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOLARIS VS FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000627093117.B250@snoopy.brwn.org> In-Reply-To: <000801bfe004$1b936a00$55ae73d1@ppp>; from dionv@spots.ab.ca on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:51:21AM -0600 References: <000801bfe004$1b936a00$55ae73d1@ppp>
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Hi, On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:51:21AM -0600, Dion E Viglione wrote: > Solaris 8 is now "open" and free. Sun told me that it is the superior UNIX of all UNICES--to end all UNICES! (--to that effect) > And-- > Solaris' kernel algorithm design is suppose to be better than BSD's. I want to learn UNIX, but computer scientists predict Linux will gradually fade away, leaving BSD; but now Solaris is free--won't that "crush" BSD? Won't everyone flock to Solaris? Do think that the 15 million (guessing!) *BSD and Linux users are suddenly going to stop using the OS's they poured their hearts into and using some commercial os which takes away their freedom? Not likely. And besides, what will we do with all our 486sx and 486dx pc's then? I don't think Solaris runs to well on them. That doesn't include the tenth of thousands of free software packages available. > Should I now uninstall my OpenBSD? Compare the number of security issues in OpenBSD to Solaris. Someone once told a SUN engineer that he can build a complete Solaris by just using all the fixes. Needless to say, the SUN engineer was not to impressed. > > Please help me with guidance. > > --D Viglione, very confused student who wants to have faith in BSD, again. > > I got the impression from Sun that they have never heard of FreeBSD! Does that mean FreeBSD is not good enough for large corporations? They might be ignoring the problem and hoping that it (Linux, *BSD) would go away. http://www.yahoo.com/ http://www.hotmail.com/ ftp://ftp.ftp.cdrom.com/ (http://www.micronpc.com/web/walnutcreek.html) Some of the ones I remember of the top of my head. > > dionv@spots.ab.ca > Feel *free* to pick whatever free OS suites your needs. They are here to stay. Regards Willem Brown -- /* =============================================================== */ /* Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. The choice is yours. */ /* =============================================================== */ Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist. -- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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