[geeks] Solaris 10 install size

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 @ 11:08 -0400, Joshua Boyd said:

> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:58:39AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> > For the time being, I have installed FreeBSD on my Sun.  I just needed
> > to get up and running quickly.  It runs great, has most of Solaris'
> > features and some it doesn't, and even has its own form of zones.
> > 
> > FreeBSD 6.1 seems to be past a lot of the 5.x pain that scared me away
> > in recent years.
> 
> Plus, FreeBSD is getting ZFS and DTrace.  ZFS is already mountable ro.

Interesting.

> I'm really looking forward to NetBSD fixing their SMP on SPARC64
> issues.  I wish I had the time or understanding to help.

Me too.  I have used NetBSD for years with fewer troubles than from any
of the others, and would really like to have it on sparc64.

NetBSD just plain works, 24/7, without major issues.

Well, at least after they fixed the kernel memory starvation problem.

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