From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 19 09:02:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 412B016A41F for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:02:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF8943D4C for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:02:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id jAJ959b52604; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:05:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "J.D. Bronson" Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:02:08 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.2.20051117055945.01c766c8@wixb.com> Importance: Normal Cc: Victor Watkins , FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org, kayo.granillo@sun.com Subject: RE: Solaris patches and Solaris Express X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:02:29 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: J.D. Bronson [mailto:jbronson@wixb.com] >Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 4:00 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Victor Watkins; kayo.granillo@sun.com; FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: RE: Solaris patches and Solaris Express > > >At 03:52 AM 11/17/2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>Hmmm, >> >> We run a lot of Solaris 8 and FreeBSD. I find Solaris 8 pretty >>much the same speed as FreeBSD for what we do. However, one thing >>is that we do not run X-windows on either our Solaris 8 or FreeBSD >>systems, because they are servers and there is no need for it. >> >> I've generally not found trouble obtaining the patches for Solaris >>I've needed, most of them are in the cluster patch, and the ones that >>aren't yet are critical (such as the repaired ncsd program) are >>available on the Internet on non-Sun-approved websites. >> >> The performance of Xorg/XFree86 vs Openwindows is greatly different >>as you point out. It is possible to compile Xorg on Solaris 8, at >>least Solaris x86 - I've heard of people doing it but I've never >>done it myself. >> >>Ted > >Indeed. But this is not Solaris 10 - thats when all of this changed. > I never understood why anyone would go to Solaris 10 unless they had a 64 bit processor and compiled all their apps under a 64 bit compiler. Sun didn't either, which is why they originally didn't come out with a Solaris x86 version of Solaris 10 They only came out with it after much screaming. Ted