Re: Linux vs. Solaris

You should try out icedtea...  I've not gotten it working under Aurora...

Ashley Wilson wrote:
>
> Am I alone in thinking that the Solaris kernel is bloated?  I have an 
> Enterprise 420R (4x 450MHz, 4GB mem) and I had to wipe it and install 
> Solaris 10 so I could move up to JDK 5.  I have noticed a huge 
> difference in speed and responsiveness.  Solaris 10 drags @$$.  I wish 
> Sun would go ahead and release Java in a self-bootstrapping form... 
> But I understand perfectly well why they are not in a hurry.  I 
> suspect that the biggest reason people actually use Solaris is simply 
> because that is the only way they can run Java on Sun hardware.
>
>  
>
> -Ash
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