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From: scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Scott Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Solaris vs SunOs
Date: 21 Aug 1996 11:08:49 GMT
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In-reply-to: jlfox+@pitt.edu's message of 19 Aug 1996 18:30:51 GMT
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In article <4vabsr$4mt@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> jlfox+@pitt.edu (James L Fox) writes:
> From: jlfox+@pitt.edu (James L Fox)
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris
> Date: 19 Aug 1996 18:30:51 GMT
> Organization: University of Pittsburgh
>
>
> I've been quite comfortable with FreeBSD on my personal PC because of
> its heritage from Berkely and Sun. My administrators are converting
> from SunOS to Solaris on our Sparcs. To help me decide whether to
> consider the intel flavor of Solaris for my PC,,
>
> would someone please convince me that Solaris will provide me
> with much more than the JOY of converting all of my incompatable
> shell scripts. (Like all the ones that use 'ps'.)
>
> --Jim Fox
The only advantage of Solaris I've ever seen is that it runs on all
those sexy multiprocessor SparcServers.....as for running it on Intel
boxen, I have a friend who swears by it but there seem to be plenty of
people who swear at it too.
IMHO, if you prefer (like me) to live in a BSD world and FreeBSD works
for you then stick with it, unless there is some real need to run
Solaris-only s/w on your PC. Or, buy another disk and install them
both (this may be the best solution).
Maybe someone on the Solaris group can offer the other POV on this?
Cheers,
Scott
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