Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 17:25:44 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se> To: vcardona@home.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Considering FreeBSD Message-ID: <200103040125.f241Pid73064@explorer.rsa.com> References: <001001c0a40f$3f091b40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 10:24:55AM -0800 <20010303181923.A7927@marx.marvic.chum>
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In local.freebsd.questions you write: >On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 10:24:55AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> Nonsense! I've run Solaris on Intel for a while and it supports >> plenty of hardware, although less "desktop" hardware than "server" >> hardware. But, I don't see that it's any more stable than FreeBSD >> and the lack of source is a detriment compared to FreeBSD. >Isn't Solaris x86 somewhat unstable? I heard that it had some serious >memory problems. The only stability problems I've seen with Solarix x86 was with a third-party NIC driver, and that was back in 2.5.1. Solaris is a nice OS, but a total memory hog compared to FreeBSD. It seems to like using swap a lot more too, even if you do install obscene amounts of memory. The bundled X server is also really good at eating memory (usually grows to 150MB where Xfree on FreeBSD stops at 35MB, given the same usage pattern). Combined with a really bad IDE driver (at least up to version 7, dunno about 8), this makes FreeBSD about twice as fast as Solaris, on off-the-shelf (i.e. cheap) PC hardware, for anything I use it for. That being said, I like solaris. I really do. Lots of nifty tools for development and debugging (really cool dynamic linker), good threads support and relatively bug free. Dog slow, yes, but stability problems, no. YMMV etc. $.02, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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