From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 7:39:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADFF837B427 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 07:39:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from user-119aekg.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.58.144] helo=ns.flncs.com) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17M8W2-0000LV-00; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 07:38:58 -0700 Received: from rtcol2dod4he5l2 (cable [12.164.45.65]) by ns.flncs.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC8953C9; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 10:43:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00d801c21ac4$c7e96870$f901a8c0@rtcol2dod4he5l2> From: "Moti Levy" To: "Steve Warwick" Cc: "freebsd-questions" References: Subject: Re: [OFF] FreeBSD vs Solaris - Opinions? Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 10:38:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG which is better jeep cherokee or bmw convertible ? it depends if you want to go off road or cruz the beach .... if you tell us what are the uses you want to implement we will be able to give you an answer that will make sense . Moti ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Warwick" To: Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 4:43 AM Subject: [OFF] FreeBSD vs Solaris - Opinions? > Hi All, > > Sorry for the off topic post but I am interested to get some different > opinions on the "which is better FreeBSD or Solaris?" topic. Everyone I know > is pro Sun so I'm trying to get a balanced view. > > Actually, to clarify my situation: > > Which, in your opinion would make a better server. Sun UltrSparc 5 / 333mhz > running Solaris (I got a great deal on a couple of machines) or a generic > Athlon 1.2mhz running FreeBSD. [both machines have ATA drives & 256meg] > > Your thoughts and expert opinions welcomed, including the peripheral topics > of support, usergroups etc. > > Thanks, > > > Steve > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message