Re: Re: First commercial deployment of aurora?
Paul Gienger <[email protected]>
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>>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. > > Same here, it wasn't a huge pain to build stuff, like the popular apache/php/mysql trifecta, on Sol9, but that was after a good couple hours downloading stuff from sunfreeware.com. I shudder to think what it would be like on AIX or IRIX or something. Definately not as easy as an rpm -ivh or apt-get or whatever the other automagic tools are. >>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. > > Ahh but that's the kicker, and the reason Slowaris is bloated. 9 works just fine on just about any sun under the ... err... sun. They include support for just about any and all boxes in all the releases. I believe that once upon a time we installed 8 on a sparc 5, but it was not pretty. They build the OS for the fastest sun box alive (which isn't saying much), but it will run (painfully slow) on anything they've ever made. -- Paul Gienger Office: 701-281-1884 Applied Engineering Inc. Cell: 701-799-0952 Information Systems Consultant Fax: 701-281-1322 URL: www.ae-solutions.com mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ 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