Re: Re: First commercial deployment of aurora?

Horst von Brand <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.aurora.devel
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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.
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