From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 25 07:35:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA15401 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 07:35:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp.enteract.com (thor.enteract.com [207.229.143.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA15324 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 07:34:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrs@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 10999 invoked from network); 25 Nov 1998 15:34:15 -0000 Received: from adam.enteract.com (jrs@206.54.252.1) by thor.enteract.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 1998 15:34:15 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 09:34:14 -0600 (CST) From: John Sconiers To: The Hermit Hacker cc: David Kelly , Alvin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > "Alvin" writes: > > > How similar is FreeBSD to commercial Unix? Will knowing FreeBSD help me in > > > using commercial Unix later on? > > > > In my experience, FreeBSD is as different from SGI Irix as Irix is > > different from Sun Solaris, as Solaris is different from FreeBSD. > > Altho they are all different, they are built on the same > foundation/premise. In answer to the original question, yes...knowing > FreeBSD will *help* you in using commercial Unix later on...it will give > you the basics to build from, but be prepared to have to seek out answers > specific to each variant you visit...and each variant out there has their > "niceties". > > Solaris has two things I wish we had...file system ACLs (makes > working with Samba beautiful) and what I consider to be a very nice print > daemon and interfaces (SysV?)... doesn't the print daemon to this day have some sort of bug...that will give a "normal user" root access.... > > Sun has a promo where for home or educational use you can purchase a > > copy of Solaris 2.6.0 for $10 (was over $18 by the time they added > > shipping and taxes). This is a very good deal, if for nothing else but > > the printed documentation. Haven't installed mine but am told it lacks a > > compiler. :-( One of the main reasons they claim to give away solaris is for the developers but they don't iunclude a compiler....?? > I have 20+ Unix servers at work, and I think one or two of them > have Sun compilers. Go to 'smc.vnet.net', where Solaris binaries are > found, including compilers and the like :) JOHN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message