Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:40:46 +0200 From: "James A Wilde" <james.wilde@tbv.se> To: "Willem Brown" <willem@brwn.org>, "Dion E Viglione" <dionv@spots.ab.ca> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: SOLARIS VS FreeBSD Message-ID: <003c01bfe013$633c7450$8c0aa8c0@hk.tbv.se> In-Reply-To: <20000627093117.B250@snoopy.brwn.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Willem Brown > Sent: den 27 juni 2000 09:31 > To: Dion E Viglione > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: SOLARIS VS FreeBSD > > > > That doesn't include the tenth of thousands of free software > packages available. > And don't forget that the first things you have to do with a machine running Solaris are: 1) ftp a package for gzip which isn't found on Solaris. 2) ftp GNU gcc cos the Solaris compiler does strange things with all the GNU software. 3) ftp all the essential packages like bind, sendmail, etc, of which old and unsafe versions are included in the distribution. 4) read all the Solaris exception reports when compiling a new app. 5) ... :) mvh/regards James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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