Re:"FreeBSD 5.3 ships with x.org, which is **BROKE
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I'm sorry, but that article is just crap. It's not even an article, it's something someone would scribble in a notepad while trying FreeBSD and NetBSD for the first time.
And he's completely wrong too. Just because he couldn't get X.org to work on his Radeon 9200 in FreeBSD does *NOT* mean that it's broken. I know for a fact that it *WORKS* because I installed it on a machine with with a Radeon 9200 and a GeForce FX5200 and it worked perfectly, right out of the box. Both the initial FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and the current patched release, not to mention -STABLE.
That "comparison" really is a poor choice to be used for making a point against FreeBSD
It's more a case of PEBCAK than anything else.
-CKS
P.S. PEBCAK == Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard, for those of you that don't know.
Re:Solaris 10 on Sun Ultra 5/Ultra 10 questions
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Oh you *definitely* need more RAM. I had an Ultra 10 that would choke on even 256MB. 512MB is the sweet spot. I used both Solaris 8 and 9 on that machine and with 512MB, the box just cruised along.
That 270MHz CPU is also going to be a bottleneck, but I guess it's fine for a mere file-server. Also, the IDE controllers on the Ultra 5/10 are only ATA66, so you'll also have to deal with that little setback in speed. I added an Ultra 2 Wide SCSI controller to my Ultra 10 and got an 18GB SCSI HD and that really helped with the speed. You could also use a Solaris 10 compatible ATA100/133 controller from the likes of Promise (assuming you haven't already done that).
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I'm sorry, but that article is just crap. It's not even an article, it's something someone would scribble in a notepad while trying FreeBSD and NetBSD for the first time.
And he's completely wrong too. Just because he couldn't get X.org to work on his Radeon 9200 in FreeBSD does *NOT* mean that it's broken. I know for a fact that it *WORKS* because I installed it on a machine with with a Radeon 9200 and a GeForce FX5200 and it worked perfectly, right out of the box. Both the initial FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and the current patched release, not to mention -STABLE.
That "comparison" really is a poor choice to be used for making a point against FreeBSD
It's more a case of PEBCAK than anything else.
-CKS
P.S. PEBCAK == Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard, for those of you that don't know.
Oh you *definitely* need more RAM. I had an Ultra 10 that would choke on even 256MB. 512MB is the sweet spot. I used both Solaris 8 and 9 on that machine and with 512MB, the box just cruised along. That 270MHz CPU is also going to be a bottleneck, but I guess it's fine for a mere file-server. Also, the IDE controllers on the Ultra 5/10 are only ATA66, so you'll also have to deal with that little setback in speed. I added an Ultra 2 Wide SCSI controller to my Ultra 10 and got an 18GB SCSI HD and that really helped with the speed. You could also use a Solaris 10 compatible ATA100/133 controller from the likes of Promise (assuming you haven't already done that).