Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 00:07:48 +1100 (EDT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: patrick@xinside.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC? Message-ID: <199702151307.FAA22884@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199702132216.PAA02367@chon.xinside.com> from "Patrick Giagnocavo" at Feb 13, 97 03:16:27 pm
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In some mail from Patrick Giagnocavo, sie said: [...] > I tried to get Solaris x86 up on two different machines. No go. Can > however install Linux FreeBSD etc. on these systems no problem. [...] > Solaris won't capture the market, because they don't have a good > installation program. Maybe this isn't a very technical problem, but > it is a very real consideration when dealing with people who are just > trying to get things to work... I'd plunk down the money for Solaris > x86 if it would install easier - but it doesn't. Well, I've installed each of Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and Solaris. I rate the installation procedures as follows: 1. Solaris 2. FreeBSD 3. Linux (and a long way behind...) 4. NetBSD I installed on a standard clone, no special cards, etc. Solaris was by far the easiest, well, maybe the disk partitioning is a bit confusing. If I was a user, I'd also like the Solaris boot the best, too. A lot of people here will disagree with me, perhaps, but when I look at the bootup screen for Solaris2, I see a finish built for users who don't know or care about hardware details etc (makes FreeBSD and others look like "hacks"). If I could, I'd advocate that the free unixes have a similar quiet boot as default and a "verbose" option to see all the junk messages about detecting disks, etc. I see the same with NT4.0 (there is a way to get a "verbose" boot). Hack, on a fast PC, those boot messages disappear too quickly to digest anyway! "Hi, I don't know anything about computers except that I want it to work. I don't want to be confused." Darren
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