Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 07:00:41 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), Pedro F Giffuni <pfg1+@pitt.edu> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OS portability (was: Things you learn in school) Message-ID: <200107090600.f6960ft42331@dotar-sojat.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav's message of Jul 9, 12:01am
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> From: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) > Date: Mon 9 Jul, 2001 > Subject: Re: OS portability (was: Things you learn in school) > Pedro F Giffuni <pfg1+@pitt.edu> writes: > > The problem is: how many people actually buy a new Ultra SPARC or an IBM > > PPC to run Linux on it? I mean serious users trying to use it for > > business purposes. > > Why not? UltraSPARCs come pretty cheap these days, and even Linux is > better than *ack* *phtui* Solaris. Solaris is far from perfect, but it's better for my digestion than Linux... When I have to hack around something on Solaris, I can generally see why things are the way they are; with Linux, I just cuss and do my best. (Though everything else non-BSD still available seems to be worse; Linux is #3 on my list of preferences. #1 & #2 vary depending on need [Purify is damn useful at times]. I just hope I never have to resort to #3...) If only Sun would release a worthy mid-range followup to the SPARCstation 5 or Ultra 1... Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk> <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>; "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>; <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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