Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1995 00:29:14 -0500 From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@entropic.com> To: Wankle Rotary Engine <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Graphical installations and such... Message-ID: <199501080529.AAA28137@epiwrl.entropic.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Jan 1995 15:49:33 EST." <199501072049.PAA05164@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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>(Also, you'd be surprised at the stupid things people will do when they >have 600 Mbytes of space to play with: Sun's Solaris 2.3 install goes >through all the trouble of loading OpenWindows 3.3 off the installation >CD just so it can run a text-based installation program inside a >shelltool window. I'm not making this up.) I agree with everything you say, but I'd just like to make one point about this paragraph. My understanding is that the reason the Solaris 2.3 install runs OW is because the text-mode framebuffers on some sparcs (like the sparc 2 and 1+'s) is damn slow as a result of a hardware bug. Installing SunOS on those machines using suninstall is a real drag. You actually get a performance gain by running OpenWindows in this case. So this isn't a reason to bash Solaris (although there are plenty of others! :-) ). --Ken
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