From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 1:41:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.tbv.se (smtp2.tbv.se [193.15.92.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A5437BECC for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 01:41:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james.wilde@tbv.se) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by smtp2.tbv.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA22938; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:41:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from james.wilde@tbv.se) Received: from UNKNOWN(193.15.92.37), claiming to be "tbvhks12" via SMTP by smtp2.tbv.se, id smtpdW22936; Tue Jun 27 10:41:05 2000 From: "James A Wilde" To: "Willem Brown" , "Dion E Viglione" Cc: Subject: RE: SOLARIS VS FreeBSD Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:40:46 +0200 Message-ID: <003c01bfe013$633c7450$8c0aa8c0@hk.tbv.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20000627093117.B250@snoopy.brwn.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----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