From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 13:19:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BBF537B884 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:19:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA53196; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:38:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <395A5D7B.FDAB55A@wmptl.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:18:03 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dionv@spots.ab.ca Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SOLARIS VS FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've yet to attempt running Solaris on the i386 platform, so maybe I'm a little biased here, but I figured I'd put my two cents in too. I have used SunOS 4.1.2, SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.3, Solaris 2.5.1, Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 8 on the sparc platform. Personally I find most of the stuff out-of-date; the features are lacking to that of the open-source software. Recently I began running OpenBSD 2.6/OpenBSD 2.7 on the same sparc machines, and thus far it's been a lot quicker than they used to be running Solaris. Admittedly I've not done much with Solaris 8 yet, but I really don't have much of a desire to either. I find *BSD generally easier to use and work with -it took me two hours to download/compile/install kde as a replacement window manager on the Sparc running OpenBSD, compared to the two weeks of compiling and patching and then finally giving up accomplishing the same task under Solaris. Granted I'm not the greates programmer in the world, and I didn't understand some of the errors Solaris was puking up when trying to compile, but I do know this; OpenBSD didn't give me any, and niether did FreeBSD/i386. The only thing I need to assure, is that OpenBSD will be able to run my Solaris binaries quik enough to become a perminant replacement. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message