Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:32:38 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OFF] FreeBSD vs Solaris - Opinions? Message-ID: <20020623223238911.AAA703@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <bulk.39648.20020623095323@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 10:57:01 -0400 > From: Miroslav Pendev <shadow@CPE0004761ac738-CM00109515bc65.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> > > I am not familiar with the kernel differences but here is what I can tell you: > > 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 ... Funny you should mention that.. because it's the exact reason I stopped messing around with Solaris/x86. I couldn't get what is probably the most popular SCSI card on the market (Adaptec 2940 series) working with Solaris 2.5. Spent a lot of time messing with it, then discovered that they had patched a problem with the driver, in Solaris 2.5.1. (2.5.1 was itself just a collection of patches for 2.5) Well I called up Sun, using that lovely free corporate support, only to discover A) even though 2.5.1 was virtually identical to 2.5, they had *no* intention of fixing that driver or making it available for Solaris 2.5, and B) I'd have to spend hundreds of dollars to upgrade, just to get that ultra-common SCSI card to work. That was the last time I wanted anything more to do with proprietary Unix OS's. If I wanted that kind of nonsense, I could just use Microsoft. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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