From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 15 0:37:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from clever.visp-europe.psi.com (clever.visp-europe.psi.com [212.222.105.4]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C60BD420C for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 00:37:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from ip57.berlin70.pub-ip.de.psi.net ([154.15.70.57] helo=goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de) by clever.visp-europe.psi.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12KdUH-0001hc-00 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:37:37 +0100 Received: by goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de (Postfix, from userid 100) id 3323B13D; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:37:36 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! References: <20000214165644.B7643@orion.ac.hmc.edu> From: Juergen Nickelsen Date: 15 Feb 2000 09:37:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: Brooks Davis's message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2000 16:56:44 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 29 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brooks Davis writes: [Solaris] > The big hardware is very nice in a number of applications and once > you're use to the OS it's not that hard to live with. I'd > certaintly take it over NT, and quite possiably over Linux, but > I'd rather have an equivelently priced FreeBSD box built to my > specs then the Ultra 10 in my office. Same for me. I have worked quite a lot with Solaris during the last two years, and while I do prefer FreeBSD, most things with Solaris are just a matter of habit and taste, and once you get used to it, it is quite a nice system. Having one file per configuration item isn't that bad once you get used to it. (Setting the default gateway with "echo routername > /etc/defaultrouter" isn't easily beaten in terms of speed! :-) Set EDITOR=vi and vipw won't get back to you with nasty surprises. Most of the configuration things can be found with something like "find /etc -type f | xargs grep mumble". I did that a lot. That was way faster most of the time than calling up the Answerbook and yielded a definite answer. But still, sure, a real screamer box with FreeBSD would be great. [Like my PC at work. Which is running under NT. Sigh.] -- Juergen Nickelsen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message