On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Norman Richards wrote:
> Actually, I found compiling XFree86 to be quite reasonable. I had
> to compile XFree86 for use on the Solaris x86 machines at work because
> the video card was not supported by sun at the time (so much for the
> myth that you get better hardware support with proprietary operating
> systems :) and had no problems. The only problems I had were at
> installation.
Its a horrid myth. I've been spec'ing out a server at work for
Solaris x86, and run into all kinds of irritating hardware non-support
problems? Ultra2 SCSI? Barely. Intel NIC on a mobo? nope. RAID? Barren.
The only good news is support is better than for DEC Unix.
-Alex
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