From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 6 05:50:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3CA16A4EB for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 05:50:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from typhoon.he.net (typhoon.he.net [64.62.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73B4B43D46 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 05:50:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from liam ([71.141.72.46]) by typhoon.he.net for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:50:49 -0700 Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:50:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill-Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: bill@liam To: backyard In-Reply-To: <20060905113248.52614.qmail@web83112.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20060905113248.52614.qmail@web83112.mail.mud.yahoo.com> System-ID: [en] (SuSE-9.3 64-bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-questions , "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Subject: Re: solaris X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 05:50:51 -0000 At Tue, 5 Sep 2006 it looks like backyard composed: > > don't get me wrong I don't doubt it is a great system > to use, which is why I kept on trying to get it > installed on many different machines; from laptops to > desktops, to servers, and my commodore... and I will > admit I installed without really looking at the > hardware compatability list... That being said > ususally the boot loader will not load Solaris for me. > The funny thing is when I had it on a machine with > windows it would boot windows, just not Solaris. > I was just thinking about how much I enjoyed the feeling of doing a successfuly install and configuration of Solaris on a desktop, which was, in my case, not all that often. Whenever I could not get it to install, I'd just install FreeBSD with no problems. Now, that is the ironic, case in point, and I can only speak for myself, but... If just a "relatively" small handful of dedicated FreeBSD coders can produce an OS that will install on damm near "ANYTHING" I always found it troubling that SUN Microsystems, with all it's resources, could not, at the least, make their x86 OS (think Solaris-10) install with support, for lets say, what FreeBSD had for 4.2? I mean, all the drivers are available, wouldn't one think that they could at least support what FreeBSD supports in terms of number of devices? -- Bill Schoolcraft <<<<*>>>> http://wiliweld.com <*> " If you turn your headlights on while going the speed of light, does anything happen? "