Solaris patches and Solaris Express

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

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

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Victor Watkins
>Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 7:33 PM
>To: kayo.granillo at sun.com
>Cc: FreeBSD-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Solaris patches and Solaris Express
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>> Do community member find these additional features worth the cost?
>
>No.
>
>We just want to get our patches without jumping through any hoops, or
>worrying about if the check made it through the mail, or if Sun FUBAR'ed
>our support account info rather than there being a problem with the
>Update Manager connecting, etc.
>
>No longer personally worried about it though..I nuked my Solaris install
>and have a nice, shiny new FreeBSD 6.0 kit now, and I gotta say, after
>Solaris 5.10 x86, the speed difference alone is breathtaking.
>
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