Re: Re: First commercial deployment of aurora?
Horst von Brand <[email protected]>
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Paul Gienger <[email protected]> said: > Well if you want a modern OS and want to be legal about it, linux is the > cheaper way to go... Sun wants you to pay for your Sol9 licenses on > boxes that have capability for multiple cpus, so if you're cheap that's > out. The other thought is that most of the OSS products out there are > developed on linux, which would make a guy think that they would run > better on it than on solaris. My experience with Solaris (up to about 2.5.1) and OSS is that it usually was a pain to build (but much less than on other less popular Unices). If you got it to work, it was OK. > As a personal point of view, backed up by absolutely nothing, I would > guess that linux in general would be snappier than Solaris of any > flavor. My machine here is a Sun Ultra 1, it was slow as molasses with Solaris 2.6, and I'm sure it won't work with anything later. Aurora runs just fine. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 _______________________________________________ Aurora-sparc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.auroralinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aurora-sparc-devel Aurora FAQ: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mas01r/aurorafaq.html