Bailing on Solaris?

[Super Bisquit]

FreeBSD and OpenBSD both work for me. I'll have to go back and try Xorg on
FreeBSD again using another card.
I tried the recent Oracle Solaris. Not much to say. If you don't have exact
or specific hardware- that means from the factory- you're screwed.
The other option is OpenSPARC and that means time and money that most people
don't have.

I didn't come to this list because I had a SB1000. I used FreeBSD on amd64,
then i386, then on PowerPC, then on SPARC. I did the same with OpenBSD.


On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Joshua Pincus <joshua.pincus at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I agree with your assessment about patches. That act by oracle was
> scandalous.
>
> >From an innovation and quality perspective, I do not see any let up now
> that
> oracle has taken over.
>
> JP
>
> On Jan 25, 2011 3:32 PM, "Gary L. Burnore" <gburnore at netbasix.net> wrote:
> > I'm getting ready to, that's for sure. I can't believe they won't sell a
> > software subscription for patches like spectrum support. A loss of income
> > for them, a worry for me.
> >
> > I've been watching this list for a while. Not long enough to make a
> > decision. Back to lurking.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> >> sparc64 at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of John Jackson
> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:33 PM
> >> To: freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org
> >> Subject: Bailing on Solaris?
> >>
> >> Sooo, how many other people have come here lately because they are
> >> ready
> >> to bail on Solaris? Ooops, I mean Oracle??? :(
> >>
> >> >From what I can see so far, it looks like FreeBSD has solid and still
> >> healthy support for Sparc platforms? I'm trying to decide where to
> >> jump
> >> to, since Oracle seems like it's accellerating toward death for Solaris
> >> as
> >> I've come to gladly know it over the last 5 years or so. Does anyone
> >> want
> >> to email me their opinion on using FreeBSD on Sun hardware? I've got 4
> >> Sunfire 280R's that I've been planning on putting into service for the
> >> next 5 years or so..
> >>
> >> -John
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