Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 17:57:16 -0400 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> To: "'Damon Hammis'" <squirrel@hammis.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Off Topic Solaris question Message-ID: <008f01bffda4$f7e2c100$d4776bce@challenger> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008031410560.783-100000@markl.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Damon Hammis > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 2:14 PM > To: keith@mail.telestream.com > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Off Topic Solaris question > > > 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've had mixed experience with SolarisX86 myself... having been a Solaris system admin (on real purple and cream boxes) in the past, I coughed up the cash to get version 7 when Sun first offered it for free (yes, free but you had to pay for shipping and media... $15 investment). First machine I tried it on was an old K5-75 that I had sitting around. 1.2 Gig hard drive, 40 Megs of RAM... it installed pretty well (behaved for the most part), but once it rebooted and went into CDE... oh no. After logging in, every time I moved the mouse, it pegged the processor. Certainly not what I was hoping for. So, I shelved it until a couple of weeks ago. I was recycling an old NT Server, trying to get a Linux variant to run on it (for some reason, no version of Linux I had here would install, but Solaris and FreeBSD installed without a hitch). Anyway, I threw Solaris on it... and it ran beautifully. Wasn't what I was expecting given my first experience with it. Pentium 100, 48 Megs of RAM... only time it would bog hard would be when I did anything Java related with it. > I love Solaris for what it can do. Not much experience with Solaris, eh? Who in their right mind ships a form of Unix without a built-in C compiler? Two words... Sun Microsystems. > I think that it is a very stable operating system, Sure is... and given 5 minutes, any *hacker* can make it look like a piece of very stable swiss cheese... > but far too expensive for me or any business I would run. The developer's license or educational personal license version isn't that expensive, and the version that I have came with a complete CD full of docs. > I think that you can get similar, if not better, performance and > functionality out of FreeBSD. Absolutely... Amen. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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