RE: [ProgSoc] buying computers

[Malek Hamdan <malek.hamdan@nospam.davnet.com.au>]

Why not ditch linux/bsd and go with Solaris for x86 - it doesn't come with
very much (not even a compiler). You can download precompiled binaries for
Solaris from www.sunfreeware.com or if you do want to learn, you can compile
what you want yourself - obviosly you need to install a precompiled gcc
before you compile anything though :).

Regards MH

-----Original Message-----
From: Gabriela Marcionetti [mailto:gabriela@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au]
Sent: Friday, 12 January 2001 5:52 PM
To: progsoc@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au
Subject: Re: [ProgSoc] buying computers


On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 telford@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:00:37PM +1100, James Wan wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Murray Grant wrote:
> > 
> > > which distribution to get, there's RedHat which is used in the level 
> > > 16 labs, SuSE and Debian. These are the 3 biggest distros. 
> > > Anyone else care to make comments about them (or other distros)?
> > 
> > FreeBSD
> 
> Ahhh, good thinking -- make her REALLY work hard... 
> 
not sure i like the sound of this ...

THe complete idiots guide has left me feeling more inclined to go with
non-bsd unixs.  As for xenix, afaik, it isn't really in use, and if i want
to use microsoft stuff, i'll use windows :).  Minux, Linux was created to
be a "Minux better than Minux", so i'll use linux :).

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