[osol-discuss] Reasons to change to Solaris

2005-10-07 Thread Daniel Mersebak
Hi there. Since I administrate several Solaris servers at work, I would like to use Solaris at home too. I have used linux and freebsd for long time, but after Sun started to open solaris it appeals more and more to me. Still I have some probably stupid questions to ask. Just be honest and feel

Re: [osol-discuss] Reasons to change to Solaris

2005-10-07 Thread Martin 'MC' Brown
1) Freebsd and Debain can be installed as minmum, and then You can suit them as You like. What I don't like about Solaris is that it take up 5 GB or more for a standard installation. Why do Sun or OpenSolaris need so much initial harddisk just for the instalaltion ? You can install a

Re: [osol-discuss] Reasons to change to Solaris

2005-10-07 Thread Albert White
Daniel Mersebak wrote: 2) The package system on Solaris is years behind the package systems from FreeBSD and Debian. Do the Solaris plan to evolve their package system, or will it remain in the current clumsy state ? 3) In my opinion Solaris would be superior to Debian and FreeBSD if it had a