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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:27:29 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UNIX 
Message-ID:  <199801292327.XAA23880@awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "29 Jan 1998 07:46:54 CST." <85d8hbo0j5.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> 

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> David <jvalens@followme.com> writes:
> > The question that I have is by lraening FreeBSD will I be able to more
> > to a ture UNIX system ie: solaris?
> 
> I'll assume you mean "true".  I think FreeBSD is just as "real" as
> Solaris when it comes to UNIX systems.  In fact, having started my
> UNIX career on UNIX V7 and 4.1 BSD, I find FreeBSD a lot "truer" UNIX
> than Solaris any day.

I'd tend to agree.  I've recently had the pleasure of *using* several 
Solaris boxen.  The advantage IMHO is the hardware, not the OS.

I've had no problems finding my way 'round Solaris from an 
administrative point of view.  Everything's very BSD'ish for a SYSV 
machine :-)

> -Dave

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
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