> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Wolfe [mailto:steve@iboats.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 1:46 PM
> > All that talk on this list about Linux vs. BSD is silly.
> > Why bother when you can have Solaris 8 on SPARC hardware?
>
> Easy: Cost.
We paid $907.00 (yes under a grand)for the rack mount server with
Solaris installed. Just plug in an boot. We bought in brand new,
in the box directly from Sun.
Find a bootable 1U tall intel box with Linux or BSD preinstalled
for $907.00 Next with your <$900.00 BSD box. I will go into your
server room and pull out +either+ all the RAM or the power plugs from
your disk drives. Next see you can tell me which I did without going
in the room.
I guess I could install BSD or Linux on the box if I wanted
but I don't need to. I just put all the GNU stuff in
/usr/local/bin and do a PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
