Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:20:55 -0700 (PDT) From: <keith@mail.telestream.com> To: Damon Hammis <squirrel@hammis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Off Topic Solaris question Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008031115030.8717-100000@mail.telestream.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008031410560.783-100000@markl.com>
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I run FreeBSD on 6 other servers as well as all my desktop machines. Would never use anything else. I just need to learn Solaris (Slowaris) so I'm not completely in the dark in future positions I may apply for. I've found solaris and hpux to be the most asked for in OS experience and few if any that ask for FreeBSD. Lucked out when I came here and was given the go ahead to rebuild the servers any way I saw fit. So FreeBSD was my choice. Not so with other companies that somehow think licenses and proprietary systems are the better choice. Keith ================================= Keith W. At the helm <for better or worse> My non work related site www.cydonia.net ================================= On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Damon Hammis wrote: > I much prefer Solaris for Sun vs Solaris for Intel. I have a PIII 450 > w/256 MB of RAM at home and idleing the system would be running in swap. > It seemed incredibly boggy and slow when I tried running it. After about > a week of that I said forget it and put FreeBSD back on. > > I love Solaris for what it can do. I think that it is a very stable > operating system, but far too expensive for me or any business I would > run. I think that you can get similar, if not better, performance and > functionality out of FreeBSD. > > Just my $.02. > > --Damon > > _ _ > |__/| .~ ~. > /o=o'`./ .' > {o__, \ { > / . . ) \ > `-` '-' \ } > .( _( )_.' > '---.~_ _ _| > > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 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 <for better or worse> > > > > 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 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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