From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 11:12:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.glue.umd.edu (po4.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACACB37B695 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:12:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@glue.umd.edu) Received: from z.glue.umd.edu (root@z.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.71]) by po4.glue.umd.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e73ICeo19057; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:12:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from z.glue.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by z.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA02723; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:12:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by z.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA02719; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:12:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: z.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:12:40 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Off Topic Solaris question 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 On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > My question is this. How different is the x86 version of Solaris from the > version that runs on an actual Sun machine? I'd hate to waste my > time learning it on x86 and have little or none of it port over to a true > sun box when I get around to purchasing one. Obviously there would be > hardware naming differences but other then that is it the same? Thanks for > any reply. My past encounters have only shown a few differences relating to device names, but you have already mentioned that. I doubt you will find anything (except performance!) drastically different. Of course, FreeBSD is much better than both, but that is just my opinion :) Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message