Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:02:08 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com> Cc: Victor Watkins <strat-man@comcast.net>, FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org, kayo.granillo@sun.com Subject: RE: Solaris patches and Solaris Express Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGENAFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.2.20051117055945.01c766c8@wixb.com>
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>-----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
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