You wrote: > License aside, > > Solaris whether it be 10 or 11 doesn't have many applications available > for it that Linux or FreeBSD contain.
Solaris has virtually everything available, it's UNIX. You can get virtually anything to build unless it's specifically written to require Linux. If you can't build it yourself there are 3rd party package repos and sites and there are mailing lists for Solaris help too. > So if Firefox and Thunderbird are enough that's great but anything else > forget about. How many packages do you need? Do you need all 22,000 in FreeBSD ports (btw only a fraction of those will build on any given platform aside from i386) or can you live with the 6,000 packages from OpenBSD? You do realize you're being a bit silly. I have 12 Debian Linux (Opteron) servers in production and 15 Suns running Solaris. We haven't noticed a problem with lack of software for our enterprise. Not sure why you think you can't use an Enterprise OS on the hardware it was designed to run on. Watching you try to get a Swedish engine control system to run your Italian Ferrari is a bit painful. Just trying to help. There is no better OS for Sun SPARC boxes than Solaris. Nothing comes close. > For application based servers which as the OP I am using my box as, my > choices for SPARC platform are either Debian or FreeBSD. Why not Net or OpenBSD? > I think soon I'm going to re-jumpstart the machine with FreeBSD 9 - > though it means extra work however, at least the NICs will be usable. Yep, better choice than Linux on SPARC. I love Debian on my AMD boxes but Linux is not a good choice on SPARC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
