On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 09:18, steve wrote:
do almost everything that my Sun boxes do on x86 and x64, I think I'll stick with Linux on these platforms and leave Solaris on the Sparcs.
John
what's the difference between what I use, an AMDX2200 and a Sparc? Steve
Why leave slowaris on sparcs? Waste of cpu power... I'm running Linux on Sparc since RH 4.1 With a brief period Suse 7.0 - 7.2 on Sparc Aurora (forked from RH), Gentoo and Debian ahve still uptodate releases Some even say that tux outperforms Solaris on sun-hardware, while "true-believer" swear on *BSD on sparc-servers. And about the difference? Totally incompatible! SUN used (!) to be way ahead of the others. Over 10 years ago while folks at AMD and Intel regarded 64-bit machines as redidulous, Sun was selling there first sun-4U CPU's in their Ultra-1 and Ultra-2 workstations...
From then on, less development for SUN, in contrast with the others. First IBM, next HP (PA-risc) and finally Intel (Itanium) and AMD
Hans