From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 0:37:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goliat.interbgc.com (goliat.interbgc.com [193.220.104.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4C1F37BE76 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 00:37:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from boris@interbgc.com) Received: (qmail 40046 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2000 10:36:02 -0000 Received: from winux.interbgc.com (HELO interbgc.com) (ivo@193.220.104.5) by goliat.interbgc.com with SMTP; 27 Jun 2000 10:36:02 -0000 Message-ID: <39585998.8262FDE1@interbgc.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:36:57 +0300 From: Boris Stoev Organization: InterBGc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willem Brown Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOLARIS VS FreeBSD References: <000801bfe004$1b936a00$55ae73d1@ppp> <20000627093117.B250@snoopy.brwn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Willem Brown wrote: > 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. > hi... You are right......Sun Solaris on Spark system ...OK.... But on Intel Platform........sucks.......... Sorry for this...but this is true...... > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message