Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 08:50:24 +1000 From: Kerry Morse <kerry.morse@metro.tas.com.au> To: "'Doug White'" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: freebsd vs solaris Message-ID: <02B01380C828D1119ED70020AF641C530A1DD1@MTTMail.metro.tas.gov.au>
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> does anyone may compare freebsd to solaris? Ok... I 'HAD TO' swap our primary web server over from a FreeBSD 3.0 (Testing) to Solaris 2.6... The new machine got a processor upgrade(Cyrix P200MX), for me the older box was faster, (it is a DX2/66) more stable and I still use it when the Solaris box falls over.. > which one is serving better, which one is supported more? FreeBSD does a darn good job for the money. Solaris you can get commerical support on; FreeBSD has this mailing list. I've got replies back from the FreeBSD questions list and had things fixed, I've also emailed Sun about a problem I had with the the boot floppy for solaris and received a reply back.. So support about the same.. > which one is more common on internet? which one is more stable? Dunno on #1, #2 I would say FreeBSD, although I have no experience with Solaris x86 so I can't say. Generally I'd expect FreeBSD, compare Solaris Sparc and it might be a bit different... > which one is easier to set up? which one supports more hardware? Probably equal here. I'd almost have to say Solaris here.. Sorry guys (and gals???).. > which one uses hardware more effectively? Again probably equal. Nope... FreeBSD... Much more tightly coupled to the hardware, Solaris just 'laggggs'... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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