Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:00:04 -0600 From: "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Victor Watkins <strat-man@comcast.net>, FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org, kayo.granillo@sun.com Subject: RE: Solaris patches and Solaris Express Message-ID: <7.0.0.16.2.20051117055945.01c766c8@wixb.com> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEMKFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <1132111958.1410.16.camel@localhost> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEMKFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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At 03:52 AM 11/17/2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >Hmmm, > > We run a lot of Solaris 8 and FreeBSD. I find Solaris 8 pretty >much the same speed as FreeBSD for what we do. However, one thing >is that we do not run X-windows on either our Solaris 8 or FreeBSD >systems, because they are servers and there is no need for it. > > I've generally not found trouble obtaining the patches for Solaris >I've needed, most of them are in the cluster patch, and the ones that >aren't yet are critical (such as the repaired ncsd program) are >available on the Internet on non-Sun-approved websites. > > The performance of Xorg/XFree86 vs Openwindows is greatly different >as you point out. It is possible to compile Xorg on Solaris 8, at >least Solaris x86 - I've heard of people doing it but I've never >done it myself. > >Ted Indeed. But this is not Solaris 10 - thats when all of this changed. -- J.D. Bronson Information Services Aurora Health Care - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Office: 414.978.8282 // Fax: 414.977.5299 -Taco Bell is *not* the Mexican Telephone Company-
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