From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 7:56:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from CPE0004761ac738-CM00109515bc65.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com (CPE0004761ac738-CM00109515bc65.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [24.103.39.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE36F37B400 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 07:56:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 55719 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Jun 2002 14:57:01 -0000 Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 10:57:01 -0400 From: Miroslav Pendev To: Steve Warwick Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OFF] FreeBSD vs Solaris - Opinions? Message-ID: <20020623145701.GA55566@CPE0004761ac738-CM00109515bc65.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Divine-Shadow-Zone: Beware of Lexxx! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 01:43:48AM -0700, Steve Warwick wrote: > 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 I am not familiar with the kernel differences but here is what I can tell you: As Firewall & NAT I don't know anything better than FreeBSD! For servers: well it depends from what kind of server you need www, ftp or File server for Windows with Samba. As far sa I know the version of Samba for Solaris 8 is little bit behind the version for FreeBSD. I use to deal with Solaris 8 for Intel's hardware recently and it was nightmare to get it working with my hardware until I remove anithing that wasn't in Sun's Hardware Compatibility List - in this case ... 3Com 905C NIC. In the list was 3Com 905B ;-))) Well the next version Solaris 8 10 01 was with support for my card, but ... From other side Sun's Sparc is very stable hardware and is good if you wish to not dial with strange locks because of cheap hardware (as it hapens with Intel's 'third party' cards ;-) ) So, your question is not only FresBSD vs Solaris, it is Sparc vs Intel architecture. For Intel only - FreeBSD RULES!!! ;-) By my opinion the only thing Solaris is little bit better than FreeBSD is Java development, "for everithing else... there is ..." FreeBSD. (sory, too many MasterCard comercials these days...) By nature Solaris is slooowww (I call it slooowwaris) it needs good machine like dial CPU's 1G RAM etc... in order to work as you wish... Well I have few more toughts, but ... in the nex letter ;-) Hope that helps! --Miro To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message