From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 16 09:49:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA04894 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA04886 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:49:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id SAA16231; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 18:45:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA11254; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 18:17:57 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970916181757.07680@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 18:17:57 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Annelise Anderson Cc: Chuck Robey , Paul Griffith , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice Needed - Unix System Admin References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: ; from Annelise Anderson on Mon, Sep 15, 1997 at 09:32:33PM -0700 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-970911-SNAP SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Sep 15, 1997 at 09:32:33PM -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote: > So, FreeBSD is a good choice for the BSD4.4 type, a point I have sometimes > made to computer science students. But what's a good SVR4 choice--any > free ones? Any versions of Linux that qualify? I think any Linux version is not equal to SVR4. I think Sun has done a good Job with Solaris 2.6. It's a fast and nice Unix that's capable of SMP. The advantage is, that it runs on three different platforms: SPARC, Intel and PowerPC. So learning this Unix has the advantage of learning a modern SVR4 based Unix, that coveres the three main hardware platforms nowadays ... -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html