From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 14: 6: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bom.thegrid.net (xbom.thegrid.net [209.162.0.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D1B037B8B4 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:05:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tony@thegrid.net) Received: from thegrid.net (grover.thegrid.net [192.168.2.13] (may be forged)) by bom.thegrid.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA11484; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:57:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3989D8FF.2A954F53@thegrid.net> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:41:35 -0700 From: Tony Rini - System Administrator Organization: OneMain.Com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: vallo@matti.ee Cc: keith@mail.telestream.com, Damon Hammis , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Off Topic Solaris question References: <20000803222155.A24540@myhakas.matti.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Let me preface this with my declaration that FreeBSD is the my favorite OS for the x86 platform. It's small, fast and stable. I'm sure I could go on touting the accomplishments of the FBSD team until the wee hours but I'd like to toss in my .02 on the Solaris (off)topic. I work with tons of servers. I inherited a motley collection of OS's, platforms, etc. I have experimented with multiple combinations. I have to give Sun my respect for the tight integration of OS and hardware. The SCSI bus architecture and multiple RISC processors is IMHO far better than anything I've seen Intel's camp produce. Of course I am only speaking of the SPARC platform. To try to run anything but Solaris (or Sun OS) on a SPARC is just asking for headaches. Trying to run Solaris on x86 will yield similar results. I try to determine my most business crtical servers (database, pop, radius, dns, etc) and build them accordingly. Ever tried to run Oracle on x86? You can do it, but for me its much more stable on Solaris. Sun hardware, while being extrememly expensive, is also extremely reliable. I tend to place those servers in the field where I dont have easy access to replace a bad board or other hardware issue. I use FBSD for anything that is on an x86 platform. Some of these include DHCP, smtp, local file servers, LAN mail, intranet, etc. Of course my own personal servers (Home Lan router, web servers, file servers, proxy server, etc) are all FBSD. They lend themselves better to the cheap hardware and snappy performance of FBSD. Both serve their purposes very well. If you must learn Solaris do yourself a favor and learn it on a Sparc. The differences are just too great. If all you can do is round up some x86's then concentrate on x86 OS's. There's tons of companies using BSDi (I've fortunately migrated ours from it) and more and more using FBSD and (ugh) Linux for critical servers. I'm in the process of migrating some redhat servers to FBSD. Not to start another linux/fbsd argument but FBSD fits my needs much better and I feel the performance gained with FBSD justifies it. Tony Rini tony@thegrid.net System Administrator Direct 805-503-7569 OneMain.Com www.onemain.com ------------------------------------------------- Your Hometown Internet ------------------------------------------------- Vallo Kallaste wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:20:55AM -0700, keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > > > 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. > > I'm running Slowaris (yeah, that's the name it deserves) for over a month > now. Basically for same reasons as you. The x86 and SPARC version will have > minor differences as others told already. It's stable and _SLOW_ as hell > compared to FreeBSD. I'll promised to myself that I run it until autumn.. > -- > > Vallo Kallaste > vallo@matti.ee > > 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