Re: tlug: What's the best

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Alan B. Stone wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> During the last week or so I've had the opportunity to work with both
> FreeBSD (extensively) and also with Solaris x86.  Although there were
> some setup features I liked about FreeBSD, there just wasn't much after
> the install was complete.  As for Solaris x86...it cost how much???  I
> couldn't believe the setup, the lack of documentation, the lack of
> supported drivers, etc.  I can't believe it's actually a commercial
> product.  Even FreeBSD supported everything I have in my system.
> 
> Today I went back to trusted RH4.2 with CDE1.2.  I'm happy and don't
> think I'll be going any where for awhile.  I like hearing others
> comments on what they've thought of the forementioned products if you've
> used them.
> 
> Take it easy.

I had the same reaction to both.  ... unfortunately I had to stick with
Solaris x86 for a couple days, since I was making a CD of Solaris tools to
help people who just bought it and can't do anything with it :) .. ie, the
disk has the GNU tools and some other neat things like binutils and
compilers that solaris doesn't come with.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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