From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 11:15:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99A7E37B60D for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:15:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09148; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:14:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <3989B658.571F0F07@wmptl.com> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:13:44 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Off Topic Solaris question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > > I know this is TOTALY off topic but since I've had zero response from the > 'Solaris on Intel' list, I'll post here in hopes that someone here has had > some experience in this area. > I'm looking into learning Solaris and can't at the time aquire an actual > sun machine to do it. I have a spare P333 laying around that I'd like to > use for this. > 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. > > Keith > > ================================= > Keith W. > At the helm > > My non work related site > www.cydonia.net > ================================= > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I don't see how there would be much of a difference other than the device entries, and how X-Windows is setup. Maybe a few other suttle differences, but to be honest with you I've never used Solaris x86, only Solaris/Sparc and even then I don't care for it. I've been running OpenBSD/sparc for a while now, and pending some better binary compatability with Solaris, I may switch all of our Sparcstations over to OpenBSD. Though to be fair, I have yet to try Solaris 2.7/Solaris 8. I doubt theres much improvement from 2.6 though and to be frank I just don't want to bother with Solaris anymore. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message