Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 05:40:45 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: patrick@xinside.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC? Message-ID: <17581.856014045@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Feb 1997 00:07:48 %2B1100." <199702151307.FAA22884@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> 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 For those of us who've never seen a Solaris2 machine boot up, could you perhaps tell us (though config@freebsd.org would be perhaps a better mailing list on which to do it) what it looks like and what about it you found so attractive? There is *nothing* about the current FreeBSD installation which is frozen in stone, and frankly I never expected it to last 2+ years looking just like it does now - I figured we'd have a totally different installation by now. Too many fires, too few hours in the day I guess. :-) Jordan
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